ai

Following Hurricane Katrina, an artist organization I belong to, called ARTinA (art in Algiers), scheduled several of its artist members to make presentations. Flamework glass artist, Debbie Dufrene, demonstrated lamping to the artists gathered. She makes a variety of glass beads. She passed around samples of her work as she demonstrated the process.




acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"

Given the look of the beads, I wanted to create a painting that captured a similar spirit. So using bright colors, I divided up the square surface. I then created a circle, made up of dots., on top of each background. See a bowl of Debbie Dufrene’s beads below.