Passion and talent lay in handwork. A sense of adventure during a summer break.
From the College of Charleston led her on a sailing trip to the Chesapeake Bay. Where she lived aboard a sailboat in Annapolis harbor and worked ashore. Learning the craft of nautical canvas work. Following year, Sue decided to start her own canvas business.
This was a time of hard work. Growing confidence, and sun-filled days sailing with friends. Transitional period of her life in the early 1990s, she was introduced to. Flameworking during a trip to Sante Fe, New Mexico.This new medium, and not one to shy away from new and exciting possibilities. To perfect her art, reveling in the opportunity to create beautiful glass.
Objects like those she had loved as a child. Sue began making miniature glass. Paperweights and buttons in the mid-1990s, loving the intricate work of.Crafting tiny flowers, birds, and insects over a small torch, and then encasing. A few years later, she stumbled upon the world of.
Dollhouse miniatures when building a dollhouse for her niece. Glasswork she was doing fit very nicely into this new magical world. In 2009, Sue moved out west.
Where she began a partnership, in work and life, with paperweight artist. Some beautiful paperweights, with Sue's delicate lampwork surrounded by Drew's. Sue has won several national awards at Bead and Button Shows. She is a juried member of the Southern Highland. Craft Guild and has attained Artisan status in the International Guild of. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the. Bergstrom-Mahler Paperweight Museum, as well as in private collections. This item is in the category "Pottery & Glass\Decorative Pottery & Glassware\Paperweights". The seller is "lucybear" and is located in this country: US.This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Hong Kong, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Sri Lanka, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion.