From the Greenbriar studio · July 2026
July was a month of looking closely at what light can do to glass. On the worktable, sheets of blue and green waited to be cut and arranged. On the light table, a piece that seemed almost still by ordinary daylight came alive: cobalt deepened, pale passages glowed, and each overlap revealed another line of color.
The kiln had its own part in the conversation. A carefully prepared mold, a firing, a cooling period, and then the first chance to see whether the glass had followed the shape imagined for it. The photographs from these days hold the work between those moments: stacks of cut glass, close views of a glossy surface, and the pieces finally standing on their own.
By the later part of July, flowers were appearing in another form: a luminous panel of red, yellow, and blue blossoms gathered among green leaves. Nearby, studies in sharply cut greens and blues suggested still more possibilities for pattern and scale. Looking back at the images, what stands out is the movement between a small decision made at the table and the larger surprise that arrives when the piece meets the light.
This is one more turn in Greenbriar’s growing archive: color held up to a window, experiments given room to unfold, and the pleasure of discovering what the glass was becoming.
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