Wendy Meyer

I have a penchant for brightly colored shiny objects. While I can appreciate the subleties of more muted, somber pieces, I seem to always migrate back to the neon greens, bright oranges and reds, yellows and cobalt blues - especially in glass. My fascination with stained glass is lifelong, but it wasn't until I became an empty nester that I made the attempt to create my own. Willing glass to shape itself into something that doesn't come naturally to that medium is just fun and challenging. It goes through an "ugly ducking" stage, but emerges as a swan - something to smile at everyday as it hangs in the window with the sun refracting and reflecting bright colors throughout the room.

But after several years of making stained glass pieces, it turned out I had a studio full of scrap glass - what to do? Why incorporate mosaics into the mix, of course!

I discovered that not only did I love making mosaics, but I can lose myself for hours - covering and coloring a substrate with glass. In a tough world, mosaics center me and I enter a realm of timeless awareness. Mosaic is a process that, while ancient, never seems to get old. I can break things, put them back together and create order once again.

I've been creating stained glass and mosaic for over 20 years and still learn something new almost everyday...valuable life lessons such as how perfection does not and cannot exist - particularly working with a medium that is unforgiving on one level yet compliant on another. My art flexes my imagination and I do it partly because it's fun and entertaining, but on a deeper level, it just feels good in my brain when I jump on that creativity train.