My agate landscapes began to morph into what I like to think of as dreamscapes.  I took the patterns from my agate series and began to mold them into hill-like formations.  These were imaginary, dream like places to me.

Winter was coming and I began to daydream about mountains and the snow that was on the way. I thought of the highlands in the hudson valley covered in fresh snow and I created the above mosaic. Something felt unfinished though so I decided to etch the whole piece and re-grouted in black to stain the glass. Below is the final version of “Winter Dream”.  I liked the dirty, tainted look. The new version reminded me of when the snow becomes dirty, starts melting to reveal some rocks and soil and changes the mood of the dreamy winter landscape into a more earthy scene.

Below are a couple smaller examples from the series.

The rolling hill-like shapes from my landscape mosaics transformed into flowing waves. While working on the piece below, I thought of a sunny day when the ocean appears as a deep, rich navy color and is filled with lots of large, breaking waves.

I feel drawn to the color blue so I did a couple more studies.  One bright and blue like the water in Australia where I live for a little while while the other more dreary like on a cold, over cast on the Northeast coast of the US. I took inspiration for the latter from a trip to Rhode Island. It was a beautiful overcast day, when the whole atmosphere at the beach seemed to have a haze over it. The ocean, the sky and the sun all appear a very similar color.

When you examine glass, it can be surprising how many colors can be found in a single sheet of glass. I wanted to see what limiting my color palette would result in. I really liked the subtle effect that this simple combination yielded.

While working with a limited palette of just two colors, I was inspired to add a few more, but only ones naturally found within the ivory glass. After examine the glass, I added brown, purple and yellow.