This is a recent commissioned reverse painted glass chandelier that is destined for a lovely new home on Kauai. Birds of paradise are my client’s favorite flower. We decided that this piece would be multicolored like many of my tropical bird and flower chandeliers. Tropical themes are my forte—they are my chosen life-long artistic direction for my traditional oil and watercolor paintings. My painted glass chandeliers in this direction are highly unique.

The goal was to create a piece that encompassed my client’s vision of paradise. We also used stargazer lilies and two different types of heliconia flowers. My client’s wife loves hummingbirds so I’ve painted two next to flowers. This piece has a lush dream-like feeling,

Going back to the birds of paradise—I’ve painted them in a very defined fashion. This piece features six birds of paradise in total including a section that is almost like a wreath of birds of paradise.

In many ways it’s hard to truly show how beautiful each one of these reverse painted glass chandeliers are in person. I cannot emphasize enough how beautiful these painted chandeliers are live. I’m very happy with how this piece turned out. This reverse painted glass chandelier has a lot of thought, planning and effort behind it. My hopes for this piece are that it will be enjoyed by my client and his family in their lovely new island home for generations to come. Much Aloha to them!