About me
My name is Aaron and I live in Seattle Washington
I've been working with glass since 2011 when I first tried it at Sammamish High school, using furnace melted soft glass in a hot shop setting. Immediately I knew this was the material for me and what I wanted to do the rest of my life. After high school and a year of fine art school, I decided I would rather pursue glass art full time as a career. I began flameworking on my own, learning the craft through trial and error and slowly building skills in anything and everything on the torch.
The type of glass I use is called borosilicate, very similar to Pyrex, as well as any scientific apparatuses used in chemistry applications. Borosilicate is very heat resistant and can handle extreme thermal change, allowing for complex builds and very small detail oriented creations. Rather than using furnaces and long metal pipes to handle the glass, I uses a high powered oxygen/propane torch that burns over 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. I then use a variety of metal and graphite hand tools to shape and manipulate the shape of the glass.
Nowadays I spend part of my time working for Seattle Glassblowing Studio making sculptures and custom art for the their gallery, and also teaching flameworking at Pratt Fine Art Center. The rest of the time I work in my own studio space I share with several other flameworkers, making different types of items ranging from jewelry, to sculptures, marbles, vessels, and functional pipes for cannabis