Jim Vormelker's
Blown Glass Gallery

Called hot glass, furnace glass, offhand blown glass—there are a lot of terms that mean glass gathered on a pipe or a rod from molten glass in a furnace and shaped into solid or vessels before the heat gets away from you.

Those who have worked with this stuff will talk about the visceral sensation that’s part of handing it, a sensation that never quite goes away. The pure physical joy of working with glass is something akin to the feeling an athlete experiences but can rarely describe.

The mental enjoyment comes from the fact that long before I picked up a pipe, every single shape that could be made already had been made. Most of them centuries before. So the challenge comes in trying to find something that doesn’t look like something you saw yesterday.

Here are some of what I’ve done while searching for that.

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Twice Blown ™ Glass First shards are prepared and selected with the colors to be utilized in the completed project. They are then pre heated and added to the gather for the final form with its base colors. There is a bit of serendipity here, with the final object and its very form determined as much by the interplay of the various colors as the piece nears completion.
	Bowl Olive Green and White, 5¼“d x 4¼”h
	Bowl 4¼“ d x 4” h
	Vase 4¼" d x 5" h
	Fluted Bowl 7½"d x 4¼" h
	Vase Solid Emerald Green with White accents, 4¾" d x 6½" h

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