I never concidered working with class to be a something for me. I was very impressed by the work I saw from Yvon Trossél when I visited the glass-atelier she shared with some other artists in het hoofdkantoor during de kunstlijn two years ago.

I especially liked her work because of her use of color and style. But that never leaded me to go check out to see if it was something I could do.

But some weeks ago I found these gorgious bead-pictures on Flickr from Sarah Hornik and man did I fell in love ;0)

I don´t wear much jewelry myself, I do love the pandorra-type bracelets and have some colorfull earrings I like. But to say I'm heavy into jewelry... No.

However the beads Sarah makes are little pieces of art. The combination of colors and textures are simply amazing and that's what triggered me. I love to combine colors and textures and experiment with different techniques and somehow I feel this lampwork/glassmelting has all of that combined in it. You can make beads like Sarah's but if you feel like making beads shaped like my cat-softies I think it's possible too. So I'm getting seriously interested!

Ofcourse I could start the way I normally would, namely directly buy some stuff to get started and begin experimenting . But for once I decided to first check out if it's as wonderful as I think it will be by attending a workshop. Guess that's a result of being enormously patient the last couple of months because of my immobility. So there was something positive about it after all ;0)

So tonight I will go to the workshop and we'll just see what happens next. Shall I need to rename this blog into Glas&Zo or can I keep it as it is?

To be continued...