About the Two Glassy Ladies
Amy is the daughter – a lampwork beadmaker. Amy has been designing and creating jewellery for many years, and had a bit of a bead-buying addiction. It was only a natural transition to making her own beads, which she has been doing since the beginning of 2006. Amy makes beads at a torch in her garage studio, anneals them in a small glass kiln, and cleans them thoroughly with a dremel. She offers them for sale in sets mostly, although she loves to create jewelry pieces as well. The beadmaking has just sort of taken over!
Elizabeth is the mother – she focuses on creating art pieces from recycled materials. She makes everything from glass platters, wall pockets, and wind chimes, to amazing full scale glass mosaic windows. She forms the recycled glass in a large glass kiln, often using molds that she has designed and created herself, in her basement studio, and then works with the pieces to make her creations.
Amy would love to work with recycled glass too but unfortunately it is not as viable for beadmaking – you can’t combine different pieces of recycled glass in the same bead, which becomes extremely limiting. Amy uses mostly Italian art glass in her work – Moretti, Effetre, and Vetrofond – although more recently she has begun expanding into some of the American companies, such as Creation is Messy and Double Helix. She also uses Lauscha glass (a German company) almost exclusively for encasing, due to the wonderful clarity this glass produces in the clears. She works on a Minor torch with two oxygen concentrators.
For more information on our studio setups, check out our studio page, or some studio photos can be found here.
The Latest Glassy News
glass on glass mosaic
If you’re looking for information about Elizabeth’s Glass-on-Glass mosaics, please go to http://glass-on-glass.ning.com/She has new pieces at the amazing Sooke Harbour House as of September, 2011. Also, Deryk and Elizabeth have been invited to be featured artists there (their shows have Sunday opening receptions) for August 2012!
Elizabeth currently has work available at She Said Gallery in Fernwood, Merridale Cider near Shawnigan Lake as well as Side Street Gallery in Victoria BC.
Bombay Sapphire Gin Bottles slumped into platters
Note that the Two Glassy Ladies have made a great new connection to sell our platters via Ambrosio, whose focus on sustainable food for Vancouver Island is something we love and appreciate.
For Wholesale inquiries, contact Jodi Ambrosio at 250 889-1129
Ambrosio Wholesale 524 Culduthel Rd., Victoria BC V8Z 1G1
email: ambrosiowholesale@shaw.ca
The Two Glassy Ladies sometimes collaborate for certain projects, and Elizabeth is always happy to recycle Amy’s rejected or broken beads! We sell our items together at craft fairs too.
All of our work is annealed in a digitally controlled kiln, and we guarantee it.
Self Representing Artist member H27
