| Statement | |
| The painterly quality of Elaine's work is achieved through the use of enamels. A simple bubble shaped "blank" is blown and cooled (annealed). Elaine then proceeds to apply the enamel paint, creating geometric patterns, rhythms and/or imagery. This blank is then heated up to fire the enamels and, in the same heating process, then picked up on the end of a blowpipe. The piece is then gathered on, blown, shaped and finished.
The influences for these pieces include Islamic ceramics and scrollwork (16th century Ottoman illuminated manuscripts), geometric patterning (Moorish tilework as in Granada's Alhambra), among others. The pieces are clearly glass in their transparency and translucency, but ally themselves with the ceramic tradition through their tactile distortions which are created by the difference in softening point between the enamels and the glass. |
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| Selected Shows | |
| 2003 | Three Woman Show, MUSEO, Langley, Washington |
| Sixth Annual Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, MUSEO, Langley, Washington | |
| Sneak Preview Group Show, MUSEO, Langley, Washington | |
| 2002 | Fifth Annual Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, MUSEO, Langley, Washington |
| 2001 | Group Show, MUSEO, Langley, Washington |
| 2000 | Third Annual Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, MUSEO, Langley, Washington |
