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It all started almost 20 years ago, on her father's farm in Northern
California's
Alexander Valley. Cynthia Myers stood in her mothers kitchen and watched
in the barnyard below.
What she saw was a woman in a mask, wearing goggles, and gloves and
using her fathers air compressor--sandblasting a huge glass window.
"I was instantly intrigued and wanted to do what she was
doing" Cynthia
recalls and her love affair with glass began.
Of course at the beginning the glass was barn finds: canning jars,
old
wine bottles and stained glass panels. But Cynthia taught herself and
taught herself well. In 1995 she won the prestigious NICHE Award and her
work is exhibited in fine galleries and homes across the U.S., Japan,
Italy, England, Norway and Greece.
With an eye for subtlety and detail, Cynthia employs a shadowing
technique that gives her artistry depth and dimension. She has developed
an ever widening reputation for her sand carved glass vases with her
decorative exteriors innovative 'cut-away' lips.
"It's the light that fascinates me" she explains "the play of color
and
tone that carving brings out in bending light. Glass is a wonderful
medium
in that it plays with light, capturing it, reflecting it, sliding off a
smooth surface and penetrating through to reflect the etching. I work
hard
to create a design that will enhance the play of light with my glass, but
my deepest hope is that these forms will have a function: to stop you
during the passing of the day when the light hits the work just so, and it
makes you say:
'Oh that is so beautiful, it makes me feel good.'"
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