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Kathleen Ash
Studio K
"It is the goal of my design life to create work with a functional reference that will have as much integrity in fifty years as it might have had fifty years ago."
Always intrigued by the process, Kathleen Ash enjoys the technical challenges of working with glass. Designing work that is clean, unselfconscious, and often humorous, she creates pieces that possess both aesthetic and functional value.
Ash utilizes a technique that predates the age of Cleopatra. Hundreds of pieces of glass called tesserae are arranged and then heated in a kiln until all are fused together in a single, beautiful form.
Intending to be a medical illustrator while at university, Ash was won over to glass in the early 1980s, and she worked for several years with the glass artist Susan Stinsmuehlen before starting on her own in 1988.
Always intrigued by the process, Kathleen Ash enjoys the technical challenges of working with glass. Designing work that is clean, unselfconscious, and often humorous, she creates pieces that possess both aesthetic and functional value.
Ash utilizes a technique that predates the age of Cleopatra. Hundreds of pieces of glass called tesserae are arranged and then heated in a kiln until all are fused together in a single, beautiful form.
Intending to be a medical illustrator while at university, Ash was won over to glass in the early 1980s, and she worked for several years with the glass artist Susan Stinsmuehlen before starting on her own in 1988.
