ROGER THOMAS 

Design & Process of Images in Glass - Contemporary Landscapes

June 3rd- 6th, 2010

9:30am-5:30pm (Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun)

4-Day Workshop Fee: $899 (includes all materials and lunch)

Roger Thomas is a world renowned glass artist whose techniques and style are instantly recognizable. He is well known to students of glass for his varied and unusual fusing techniques with which he creates his art. In this unique workshop students will challenge their preconceived notions about glass, color, and technique and learn to differentiate between the essential and the unnecessary.

Roger will share his experience and unique vision to help students cultivate their own artwork. In this class, students will benefit from group discussions and critiques as they each work to create original art pieces. This course focuses on design and process for contemporary landscapes in fused glass. Students will gain insights on creating personal artworks based on Roger's discussions about and demonstrations of how he creates color, depth and translucency in his work. In addition, students will create sample pieces of different techniques, illustrating styles Roger uses in his own studio.

This is an ideal class for the intermediate level fuser looking to expand their work into a more pictorial medium as well as the accomplished painter or draughtsman wishing to expand into fused glass. The prerequisites are either good fusing skills or good painting skills combined with basic fusing experience.

ROGER THOMAS began working with glass in 1973 in California, first in stained, then blown glass and a decade later in fusing. In 1988, he moved his studio to Portland, Oregon where he continues experimenting with fused glass as a pictorial medium, developing methods of dealing with what he calls "the fused glass palette". He exhibits his "paintings in glass" and teaches his techniques in U.S. and international venues.

www.rogerthomasglass.com