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With a
working-world background in graphic design, Jo’s free time has
also often been spent delving into arts and crafts of all kinds.
Pottery, macramé, needle arts, doll making and beading have all
been passions for her.
In the Spring
of 2003, during a bout of beading, she came across Making
Glass Beads by Cindy Jenkins. Since that moment, lampwork
has been Jo’s sole creative passion.
As many
lampworkers do, Jo entered the world of molten glass on the
wings of a Hot Head torch which was firmly bolted to a garage
worktable by her slightly panic-stricken husband, Stan. Since
then, Stan has become her biggest fan, for which she is
eternally grateful.
Jo, a native of
St. Augustine, now works with a duel fuel GTT Bobcat torch in her third-floor studio at her home,
Cracker Cottage, on Anastasia Island. Her work is inspired by
views of the Intra Coastal and North Florida’s beautiful marshlands.
“There is still
so much left for me to explore in lampwork,” Jo said. “I
discover new things about it each time I sit down at the torch.
There are still so many techniques I want to try and to master.
The glass continues to draw me in." |
