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art, Jeri Leigh said she tried almost
every medium, “trying to find my
voice,” she explains. Her introduction
to glass was through the creation of
stained glass windows, but she found
the form too restrictive, so she cut up
all of her stained glass into mosaicsized
tiles and sold them on eBay for
other people to make their art. She
sampled lampwork, making glass
beads with a blowtorch, but that
process was not nearly as fulfilling
as the one she finally discovered in
fused, kiln-formed glass art, fanning a
passion that has taken her from one
masters class to the next across the
United States and Canada for the last
11 years.
Influenced by Asian art aesthetics,
Jeri Leigh experiments with glass
the way potters experiment with
Raku ware. Starting with a blank, like
a bisque fired pot, she adds glass
string, glass pebbles and powders.
Like Raku firings, she is not always
certain of the outcome.
“I’m trying to push the depth,”
she says, cradling a deeply pitched
bowl that represents the sum total of
almost all of her achievements thus
far. “What’s hidden inside that might
be my surprise.”
One of her signature techniques,
the splatter bowl, is created by the
loose slinging of wet glass powders
onto blanks and is but one of the
processes that has earned accolades
from her instructors.
Confessing that she is enthralled
with butterflies, their colorful papery
wings, their veins and the flutter
of movement as the wings open
and close, Jeri Leigh Dearing is still
emerging. The mother of five children
ranging in age from 15 to 35 says, “All
these people that I really respect have
started late in life.”
Jeri Leigh Dearing’s work can be
found at the River to Sea Gallery in
Chandler’s Wharf.
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