CLASS TIME
Tues (3/26) 5:30 – 8:30
TICKETS
- Registration is NOW CLOSED for this Master Class
Come join Ellen Fairchild-Flugel and Barbara Camph to make your own mirror, surrounded by mosaics! We will provide the mirror and all the other supplies for you mosaic around the mirror. Just bring your creativity!
Ellen Fairchild-Flugel
Ellen Fairchild-Flugel
At age 16, I designed my first ring from the red wax coating on Gouda cheese and cast it in silver. I was hooked! My journey in metal has evolved over the years to include forging iron, larger scale casting, etching, forming metal over stakes and anvils, soldering and construction etc. Creating relationships/contrasts between natural elements has been a recurring theme in my work. I want the feeling of my work to describe motion and energy – beyond the obvious!!. When designing I like to incorporate unusual textures, different materials and metals to complement the beauty of each in a striking way; handmade paper and silver, copper and colored glass, bronze and marble. The dichotomy of my work with jewelry, gems and my larger sculptures has challenged me to expand my vision as they have merged to become a combination of the two. Some of my smaller sculptures pair jewelry with the sculpture, adding a new and more personal dimension to the piece. All of my pieces are one of a kind. Currently I am concentrating on commissioned jewelry or sculpture,(collaborating with clients melding their vision and mine, is one of my real joys). I do also still make pieces for the fun of it and participate in a few benefit shows a year.
Barbara Camph
Barbara Camph
I started learning the craft of stained glass in the early 1980’s in California, and only as a hobby. In 1995 we moved to Portugal for an adventure, but were too young not to work. We started our mini-businesses: my husband made furniture and I stained glass. So many people helped us, and we survived, learning so, so much along the way.
After 12 wonderful years in Portugal, we moved to Panama where we continued our trades. We stayed there for six years and then moved to the Shenandoah Valley, where we have family. All this adventure involved moving our furniture, art work, and clothes all over the world; I can’t face packing up all that glass again…sheet by sheet!
This well-travelled glass inspires me. I like to say that “glass talks to me”. There is nothing better than sitting at my work table, with the beautiful glass around me…all of it waiting to be cut and fashioned into something new. How fortunate am I?
