I enjoy working with gourds because they provide the opportunity to use such a variety of techniques. I wood burn, carve, and cut them. To color them, I use inks dyes, oil pastels, acrylic paints and Inktense pencils. I often embellish them with pine needle coiling. My more common motifs include flowers, fish, butterflies, leaves, holly and poinsettias with autumn leaves being my "trademark".

Jan Anderson is a Fused glass artist.  She says “Glass is Magical! It's enticing and playful. It is sensuous, soft and molten hot yet it can be cold, hard and cutting. It takes you on a journey whether you are viewing it or creating with it. This enchanting medium, the only known liquid solid on earth, calls to the mad scientist in my heart”

She loves the tremendous versatility along with her ability to pull together her love of Nature, people and animals to express herself using both her science and art background.  “ I strive for each piece to be unique and complete in itself”. Her work is often tactile bringing out the playful side of glass - tempting one to touch the untouchable and tease the mind to wonder “how’d she do that?” Come take a journey through the sublime magic of color kissed shadow and light with her. Explore the art of fused glass at Art Works Gallery!