Victoria M. Davis

I am an artist whose chosen medium is glass. I incorporate warm and cold glass forming techniques to transform sheets of glass into vibrant colorful light catching art. Glass is a beautiful medium to express color. Glass can be as soft and delicate as a watercolor painting or as bold and striking as pop art. Glass provides an additional dimension of playing with shadows and the colors that the art throws on surrounding objects when the light comes through it at just the right time. 

During the day I am a professional software consultant. My professional life focuses on formality, structure, and deadlines. I want my art to reflect less formality and structure and emphasize more on whimsey and color. The subjects I focus on are tropical landscapes, flowers, cats, and dogs. Working with glass allows me to unleash my creativity and create art where the flowers can be green and cats can have wings. 

To create the glass art, I start out with one or more sheets of glass, which I cut into the shapes needed for the art piece. Then I modify the shapes by adding frit (different sizes of grains of glass), firing it in the kiln (sometimes multiple times), slumping, and mounting it for a final piece.  I often incorporate painting on the glass using enamel paint. Enamel can be mixed with water-based mediums which allow the user to paint on the glass similar to using acrylic paint.  My hope is that at the end of the day someone will be able to identify my work by my chosen medium, crispness in the line work, and in a world full of structure, smile for the whimsy of green flowers and cats with wings.