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What a busy but productive week! It’s been a little while since I’ve had to go into production with my standard pieces for my reverse painted chandeliers. I make glass bowls here in my studio and tend to make 8-10 at a time. It’s more technical and labor intensive work than creative. Usually I wait until I’m at the bottom of my stack of bowls to make more, which is the case right now. I think that’s understandable given the fact that I’m a painter first and foremost.

I’m due to start three new commissions. One is for another glass artist  and his wife, who are moving to Florida within the next couple years. It’s for the family home. I love to create reverse painted chandeliers for other artists because they have a deep appreciation for the amount of work (not to mention an understanding of cost) that goes into making a functional work of art like a chandelier.

We sat down and had a lovely time going through flower photos that were taken in Hawaii and elsewhere. My specialty is tropical flowers and this sets me apart in my work. I have an understanding for tropical flowers and have been painting and studying them for more than a decade.

I take great pride in my painted chandeliers. The glass bowls don’t magically appear for me in a store—they’re created by hand. My glass bowls have a durability, quality and character that are unique to my work alone. Though I wish it were an easier process—the creating of each piece as my blank glass canvas—the efforts are well worth the end results.

So the glass bowl above…well, let’s just say it’s in it’s infancy with several more hours to go. It is destined to become a reverse painted chandelier and above all, a work of art…perhaps like this:

Bahama, Macaw, a Reverse Painted Chandelier by artist Jenny Floravita