Elizabeth Blood

Artist’s bio

Southern Splendor Captured in Glass

Elizabeth’s glass beads and glass art are individually lampworked.  Lampworking is a process that uses an oxygen and propane torch to melt Italian glass around a stainless-steel mandrel. She melts the glass rods to make unique and interesting color combinations that form her sea life, flowers, and abstract shapes. Her beads and sculptures capture the diverse forms and shapes found in nature. The beads and art glass are properly annealed (flame to kiln) in a digitally controlled kiln to ensure strength and durability and fully cleaned.

Elizabeth Blood has a profound love for the natural beauty of Mother Earth and all the creatures that share her oceans, marshes, woodlands, and wetlands. This love has been a central motivating force in her life. After completing two degrees in science, she received a doctorate in Ecology (the study of living things and their environment). She has studied the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, South Carolina coastal wetlands, and southwest Georgia Karst wetlands and streams. 

 Elizabeth has been interpreting this fascination of nature into glass art, beads, and jewelry. Raised in the Southeast, her beads are inspired by the lush beauty of southern gardens and coastal wetlands, the magnificence of the piney woods and the enchantment of the animals that occupy these areas. Her beads and sculptures include fish, ocean life, seasonal landscapes, lush vineyards, floral gardens, floral cactus, earth minerals, water and wetlands, and wetland wanderers.

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