Berry Davis & Collette Fortin - Celina, OH

booth-29-berry-davis-collette-fortinBerry Davis, who started Neptune Hot Glass over twelve years ago, creates sculptures with oceanic themes. The Coral Heads, Reef Sculptures and Lagoons which evolve are reminders of the quickly vanishing beauty of our planet’s oceans.
The first step in this intriguing process is to assemble the inclusions that are later encased in very high quality molten glass. After final shaping by hand with graphite smoothing pads, the pieces are cooled in an annealer. The final cutting and polishing is achieved through the use of high-speed diamond tools.
In 2005, Collette Fortin joined the firm as a partner and last year a new gemstone serie of works that contain diamonds, rubies, sapphires and citrine, most usually encased with fine silver or 24K gold, was developed, in addition to a series of Treasure Window that often includes hand-formed metal art

Learn to Solder and Create Chains with Jennifer Chin!

LIVE online course April 18th, 8pm EST90min class followed by Q&ARegister today at CraftCast.com
Ever wonder how LushMetals jewelry is created? Now’s your chance to find out! Next Wednesday, Jennifer will demonstrate 3 projects up close and in silver (a bracelet, necklace and earrings) from start to finish, including how to finish your pieces with textures [...]