"I want to make beautiful, functional art that you can use and appreciate everyday"
Made in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Glass made where the mountains meet the sky.
Hand-blown vases, cups, mugs, pitchers and ornaments from a small studio in Asheville, North Carolina.
The studio
Shaped by fire, made for your table.
Meltwisp Glassworks is a one-person studio in Asheville. Each piece is gathered from the furnace, blown and shaped by hand, so no two are ever quite the same.
I first saw glass blown as a kid at the Corning Museum of Glass, and it never left me. In 2024 I finally took a make-your-own-cup class at the North Carolina Glass Center here in Asheville and found a community of talented, generous artists who have taught me most of what I know.
What keeps me at the furnace is the feeling of progress. The loop of experimentation and growth provides the bellows to my creativity. Glass asks you to be fully present: you're working against gravity, surface tension, heat and time all at once, and pieces break. Every crack is practice in letting go and getting back to work.
I studied physics, and glass is all of the physics with none of the math. You could explain every move with an equation, but the feel you build for the material by handling it is more intimate than anything on paper. And molten glass is still the most beautiful color I have ever seen.
In the shop
Small batches, released a few times a year. When a piece is gone, it's gone.
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Commissions welcome: matching sets, wedding gifts, custom colors. Tell me what you have in mind and I'll reply within a few days.
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