Nada Kesic

My passion for art has been an ever evolving journey from etchings, ceramics to sculpture, painting, poetry and now the art of glass.

Glass has an energy that reaches from within its layered depths. The melding of a rainbow selection of colours, the occasional bubbles encapsulated holds me fascinated, enthralled and captivated. The various techniques to create a kiln formed piece of glass art is endless using layers, frits, powders and noodles, stringers, dichroic glass (that has an unique voice all its own), enamels, kiln fusing, slumping, lost wax casting, pate de verre, drop moulds, vitro graph, cold working, sand blasting etc to achieve a beautiful unique work of glass art. Metal, ceramic, fabric add another dimension. The options are limitless and for me they are dictated by the glass and my intense creative and ethereal relationship with it.

I work instinctively and the designs evolve spontaneously though on occasion I may have a preconceived idea but it is never as I imagined changing along the way as the various elements of glass and the firing process dictate. Then the beauty of the glass is truly evident. I love the unexpected outcomes, beautiful and at times during the challenging casting process it goes somewhat askew.