About
"My work is focused on searching for beautiful moments:
Moments in a color pattern where the movement of the molten glass is frozen in the finished piece. Where colors move and overlap in unique organic ways, creating unreproducible patterns. I chase after a harmonic balance between density and negative space, proximity and tension, and line weight and color value in the compositions I create."
Peter's Story
Peter was introduced to glassblowing at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading, PA. After taking a few workshops, making ornaments and cups with the help of the professionals at the studio, he was inspired to learn more about glass. He signed up for an introductory class in February of 2018, where Peter got to experience the magic of gathering glass out of the furnace for the first time.
"I was captivated by glass; the challenge of working with it, the possibilities of what it could be made into, and the endless learning needed to master it."
Following the introductory class, Peter continued to sign up for classes at the GoggleWorks. He worked with the studio manager, Scott Krenitsky, spending six to seven days a week in the studio cleaning, charging the furnace, helping with workshops and production.
Peter has found the challenge of learning the craft to be an addictive process. Turning a molten unshaped material into a precise, predetermined form is fulfilling and keeps Peter coming back to the studio to produce his designs in glass.
Over the years Peter has been working with glass he has worked for and learned from artists based out of Berks County, notably Danny Polk, Stephen Rich Nelson, and Will Dexter as well as taken classes with Angus Powers, Katherine Gray, David Walters, Robert Lewis, Bed Edols and Dante Marioni, at Alfred University, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, and The Pilchuck Glass School.