Shawn Messenger was one of the first women to receive a BFA in glass from Cleveland Institute of Art. She also attended Pilchuck Glass School, studying under Dale Chihuly and Italo Scanga and Penland School of Crafts with a focus on murrini. This is was a shape or pattern, such a flower, is crafted out of glass and made into a glass cane. So when you cut a cross section out of the glass, the pattern of a flower is shown. Parts of the cane art added to blown glass. The vase below is a beautiful example of how Shawn uses murrini in her work.
"My work has been greatly influenced by my love of nature and the wonders it has to offer us. I have tried to incorporate my fondness for flowers and gardens with glass to create an impressionistic vision of the landscape. For me, the flowers are small worlds filled with colors and shapes that produce incredible beauty. The glass murrinis in my work represent the flower. These flowers together become a field of color floating between grasses and stones. This is much like a millefiore, a million flowers. My intention is to evoke a feeling of serenity and solitude, an homage to nature."
-Shawn Messenger
"My work has been greatly influenced by my love of nature and the wonders it has to offer us. I have tried to incorporate my fondness for flowers and gardens with glass to create an impressionistic vision of the landscape. For me, the flowers are small worlds filled with colors and shapes that produce incredible beauty. The glass murrinis in my work represent the flower. These flowers together become a field of color floating between grasses and stones. This is much like a millefiore, a million flowers. My intention is to evoke a feeling of serenity and solitude, an homage to nature."
-Shawn Messenger
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Harvest Gold Gallery
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