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Susan Higgins
creates custom window panels, as well as glass bowls and
platters using a technique known as glass fusing.
In 2008, Susan
exhibits at the Muskoka
Arts & Crafts Summer Show in Bracebridge July
18-20, and opens her studio to the public for the second
annual Artists
of the Limberlost Open Studio Weekend August 16-17.
She is a guest artist at the Apsley
and District Autumn Studio Tour September 15 and 16,
and in December she shows in Toronto at Karen
Franzen’s Annual Holiday Studio Sale. She is also
participating in the Village Artisans fine craft and art
collective gallery in Port Carling.
Susan began
designing and fabricating stained glass windows in 1980.
She studied drawing, painting and design at the Ontario
College of Art and Design, and has completed numerous
courses and workshops in a variety of glass techniques.
She began fusing glass in 1988.
To create an
object of fused glass, shapes are cut from specially
formulated sheets of clear and coloured glass, and then
composed to create a design of multiple layers. The
composition is then kiln-fired to about 1500° F at
which point the fragments melt together and create a
single solid piece of glass. To form a bowl or plate,
the fused glass is kiln-fired again, this time over a
mold. The influences of heat and gravity "slump",
the softened glass into the mold, creating a three
dimensional object. The glass used is food-safe, so her
work is functional as well as decorative.
Susan’s award
winning fused glass is sold in fine craft galleries,
including the Shutterbug
Gallery in Huntsville Ontario, and The Guild Shop in
Toronto’s Yorkville.
In addition to
fused glass, Susan continues to create stained glass
projects by commission, often incorporating fused glass.
Her home-based studio is near Huntsville Ontario. |