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Seekers Glass Gallery presents the work of Scott Chambers, who
creates dramatic visual statements with his exquisite glass floral sculptures.
He utilizes pure, vivid colors to create super-life-sized
flowers, which he carefully composes into arrangements in handblown glass vases.
Inspired by natural forms, colors and textures, Chambers takes artistic license
in interpreting the beauty and refinement of real flowers, rather than simply
creating glass replicas. He creates some flowers in realistic colors, others in
hues that are purely fanciful.
Currently, the sculptural arrangements he creates include Calla
Lilies, Daylilies, Cattails, Old Fashioned Roses, Siberian Irises,
Rhododendrons, Daffodils and mixed bouquets.
After a late start at 40 years of age, Chambers took to glass
with a passion that propelled him into mastering the most complex techniques of
the medium in a few short years. As a native of the Pacific Northwest, now
recognized as the world’s leading center of glass art innovation, Chambers has
had excellent access to learning about glass. He studied at Seattle’s Pratt
Fine Arts Center and at the world’s most prestigious and highly regarded glass
school, Pilchuck, founded by Dale Chihuly in Washington State. Having learned
the classic techniques, Chambers is proudly self-taught in making flowers, an
area that only a few contemporary glass artists have mastered. He sculpts each
flower individually from molten glass, using many of the ancient techniques of
offhand glassmaking, no molds and only a few simple tools.Scott Chambers' work
has been shown at major galleries, museums and juried exhibitions throughout the
United States.
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