Barbara [Svetlick] Wilson

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Barb In Paris

June 21st

I am anxious to get back on the torch but my recovery is methodically slow. I am on week 5 of healing and am beginning to think it might be another month before I can hold my arm at that angle needed to hold a rod or the tools. I did finish my mixed medium piece for the show this weekend. Lewis will be setting up and breaking down without my help but he has been such a wonderful support. I would use this time to write but being on the computer aggrevates my arm so I am reduced to just biding my time reading and doing light housekeeping.

Barb...bored beyond belief.

Chinese Market

Magnolia blossoms

Red Hibiscus March2017

Ice Blue Flowers March2017

English Roses

MIXED MEDIUM ART

When I am working on a mixed medium sculpture, I use soft glass making my leaves, flowers and buds on steel wires. This is the first time that I have used very long wires [6 to 8 inches] which allows me to intertwine them easier and stronger.

This project is using one of the used student violins that I found at an antique/thrift store this weekend. These English Roses are made with moretti 104 and Bullseye 90 glass [not mixed]. I don't particularly like the 'green' palette of 104 so all of the leaves are Bullseye. The flowers and buds are mostly #262 Moretti and a few in Bullseye pink.

When I form a flower or leaf, I intentionally make them in motion. I do not do flat symetrical flowers, I am an impressionist artist. I want the colors and the forms to create the image with each person who views it. I want the impression to be as varied as possible giving everyone the opportunity to appreciate the delicateness of glass flowers.