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Pat has always been intrigued by glass. In 2006, she was looking for a new hobby and decided to take a class in glass water fountains.
It didn’t take long and she was soon making small plates and things but wanted to make larger pictures. Pat decided to buy her own kiln and “do her own thing”.
The type of work created is called fused glass. This means that one piece of glass is heated to another so that they become one. This means glass cut into shapes, other times it is crushed and placed one piece at a time to form a picture. It can then be melted into a form to create a bowl or other form.
Although Pat tends to lean toward contemporary art, she is taken with the cowboy. The cowboy represents high integrity, moral fiber, love of God, country, loyalty and honesty. She believes the cowboy to be the embodiment of the “last American Hero”. Therefore the land, animals and cowboys have become the focal point of much of her art. Mostly done in crushed glass, she is free to form the creatures in the wild as she has experienced them. From farm and ranch hands working their trade to the Colorado Mountains filled with wonder and beauty.
Pat’s hope is to provide the same satisfaction to the art patron, that she gets, when creating each piece.
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