 I use as-you-find-it beach glass. Which means that I don't alter the glass in any way before using it in my work. I've been collecting beach glass for about 26 years from all over Canada. The majority of my pieces were found on the beaches in Port Stanley Ontario or on rock beaches around Kingston Ontario. Most of my glass pieces are white, brown or various shades of green. Every once in a while I come across the much hunted for red, blue or even mauve piece. The origins of the glass are most likely from US cities but the Lake Ontario finds could be from any one of the Thousand Islands. By using this glass in my work I think of it as a way of recycling, reusing and reducing.
It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between real beach glass and fake (tumbled in a tumbler instead of by waves). Here is an article that should help: http://seaglassassociation.org/GenuineVsArtificial.php
If you have a special piece of glass you would like used for jewellery, let me know and I'll see if I can do something special with it. |
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