Welcome to the Glass Studio

Employing the techniques of the old masters and new ones of their own, the highly-skilled artisans of our studio produce blown glass pieces that express the sensibilities of today while honoring the rich glass-blowing heritage of the past.

The work performed in our glass studio requires strenuous effort, at dangerously close to extreme temperatures (often over 2,400 degrees F). Working as a team, each person has to perform with precision and a deft touch, being especially careful not to burn the others. The working of hot glass begins with a furnace, 'the tank', holding several hundred pounds of molten glass. About the consistency of honey, the glass is picked up, or 'gathered', on a hollow steel blowpipe, and manipulated while still soft into the forms desired. It can be made to take virtually any form, literally an infinite number of possible shapes.

Using a few simple tools and the heat from a secondary furnace each piece is coaxed from the amorphous blob of glowing heat. The work is taxing, both mentally and physically. It gets HOT! The primary function of one team member may be to act as a heat shield to protect the gaffer (the one who wields the pipe) It is through the combined talents of this team that the larger of our works are created. The pieces are designed and manufactured entirely by hand, and in extremely limited editions, each one finished, signed and dated by Larry Newsum.

Larry Newsum at the gloryhole..................

................. Mike Worcestor blowing a piece.