Work begins in the studio where I draw out my designs on paper and experiment with color combinations. Next, I create individual elements for the design in the cold shop. Pieces of clear and colored sheet glasses are cut to size and laid out according to the design; firing them in a kiln fuses them into one solid piece of glass.

This piece might be a pattern bar or 'glass box' made up of many small pieces of glass. It will be reworked in the coldshop- sawn into cross sections with a diamond blade, ground for a smooth surface, and sometimes sandblasted, and/or polished. These pieces form the core of my designs.

Additional pieces of sheet glass in complimentary colors will be added, along with torch worked elements like the stringers and frit balls pictured above, to the design.

This whole jigsaw puzzle is fired again to create a single piece of glass which goes back to the cold shop for grinding to shape, and polishing as needed before the final firing.

The final firing is the slumping process. The piece of glass is laid upon a mold and fired just to the point where it will sag into the mold and acquire it's shape.