Nancy Burke

Nancy Burke saying it with glass 2009

Nancy makes her artistic expression through the luscious medium of glass. Her thirty-some year voyage has been fueled with incredible enthusiasm, unbounded joy of exploration and experimentation and the seemingly endless ways and means of creating glass.

Glass; sheet/chunks/frit/powder/rods/slabs/...metals/micas/foils/iridescent/dichroic/enamels/

silver stain/...organics cast/fused/tacked/epoxied/uv glued/warm worked/coldworked/laminated/molded/free-form/mosaic/pate de verre/faceted/engraved/...

Influences for Nancy’s work, whether sculptural, functional or whimsical, are quite simply life’s magnificent experiences and chance adventure. And being blessed with numerous fantastic learning opportunities with some incredible people. Eric Wesselow/Ray King/Gil Reynolds/Stephen Brathwaite/Donna Milliron/Patty Gray/ Kent Lauer/ Madame Tomoko Kodama/Matrgareta Gradin-Nettles/Susan Ashbrook/Donna Lynd/Michael Dupille/...

Nancy’s glass art resides in private collections in Canada, USA, Ireland and South Africa.

Member: Arts Ottawa East/Council for the Arts in Ottawa/Manotick Art