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“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”  Terry Pratchett

Now Studios currently shows the work of Ed Kennedy and Angela Bone.

Ed Kennedy:

One evening many years ago, while playing a board game with my neighbors, I was given a task of making a wish.  The wish that I heard myself making was, “I wish I had more wonder in my life.”  I have been watching that wish come true.

I have been working with glass, first, breaking it as a little kid, and later installing glass in houses and commercial buildings.  One day a friend said, “You are a glazier, you should be able to make stained glass windows.”  I had been interested, and now was challenged.  My first window was drawn out with a fat black marker, on a sheet of newspaper, and I learned to adjust.  I finally had to put the window in storage, and let my mind dwell on it.  A few years later, I did the Landmark Forum, and the next weekend I pulled the window out of storage and completed it.   I have been having fun with stained glass for thirty years.

I live in Victoria, British Columbia, and five years ago I was given a job in one of the best stained glass shops in the Pacific Northwest, the Glass-Smith.  I was doing regular glass work, and got to be around professionals who designed and built stained glass.  The Glass-Smith offers classes in building stained glass, fusing, and I was lucky enough to learn glass painting.  In the fusing class I was introduced to dichroic glass.  It is magic for me.  If you have ever opened a kiln with your work in it, you will be aware that a transformation has taken place.  It brings mystery and wonder.  The results are always a surprise.

Working with glass has been wonder full.

Angela Bone has been working with glass for six years, first as a bead maker, and is currently fusing large plates with a labyrinth design.  Angela, with the help of the Garden Committee at Victoria General Hospital, has created a permanent 45 foot diameter outdoor labyrinth on the grounds.  She  brings beauty, vision, and grounding to her work.