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Hollyhocks
Model: 07-01-0006
Dimensions:
70"H x 8" diameter
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Price: Available upon request
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This is a representation of a piece that can be commissioned. Hot-worked glass mounted in copper and steel. "Hollyhocks" are hand-riveted to their patinaed stalks. Artist also does "calla lilies".
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More about Kim Webster
Kim combines her love of the garden and her delight in language to celebrate themes of nurture, memory, tradition and fecundity.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Kim holds an Honors B.A. in English and Business from the University of Guelph. After a 12-year career in Public Relations and Marketing, she studied glass at the Sheridan College School of Craft and Design where she graduated with honors in 1998. Her work was selected by Paul Greenalgh of the Victoria and Albert Museum to be included in the Ontario Crafts Council touring exhibition, the "Looking Forward Project", which was launched in November 2000. She received special recognition by the Royal Canadian Academy of Art for her entry in the nation-wide Arts 2000 juried exhibition. Her work has also been awarded the Grand Prize of the Glass Art Society student competition in Seto, Japan (1998), the Francois Houde Memorial Scholarship and "Best in Show" Graduating Scholarship both presented by Sheridan College (1998), and the Ontario Crafts Council Kingcraft-Lady Flavelle Scholarship (1999). Her pieces have been included in the Corning Museum 1998 New Glass Review (#20) and Vetro Magazine (March, 2000).
Kim’s glass repertoire includes both blown and kiln-cast glass as well as screen-printed enamels applied and fired-on to the surface of her work. "Glass has been used to preserve what is precious for over 5,000 years: vessels to contain scented oils, medicines and aphrodisiacs; castings to represent and invoke the sacred and the spiritual; two and three dimensional depictions of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines.... Glass, which is both durable and fragile, is a tangible metaphor through which to express and explore the range of human experience; experience which, like glass, is both lasting and ephemeral. Beauty, sensuality, wonder, memory, wisdom shared, friendship, laughter: these are some of life’s treasures worthy of being preserved, shared and pondered."
Kim has taught Glass History and Glass-Forming at Sheridan College, Ontario and at Public Glass, California. She has been a teaching assistant for Irene Frolic and Lou Lyn at Pilchuck Glass School, and now lives in California where she continues to create and encourage others to find expression in glass.
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