The Artist
My Beginning
I'm Angela, the artist behind Angela's Glass Studio. I've always been drawn to color and light. But I didn't grow up thinking I was an "artist." It just wasn't something I believed about myself.
But I never forgot a glass project I made in a school art class. Something about it stuck with me in a quiet, persistent way. Years later, when I was a stay-at-home mom looking for something creative to do, that memory resurfaced… and I decided to try it again.
That one decision changed my life.
I'm largely self-taught, learning through trial and error and the early days of online glass forums. I made plenty of mistakes, broke things, overfired things, underfired things... but I learned from every single one. Over time, I built my skills through stained glass, fusing glass, and more dimensional, sculptural work.
I had such a natural connection to glass. It was part of me.
After a move, I went about five years without a glass studio. That stretch pushed me somewhere unexpected. I started drawing and painting. Mixed media, acrylic, watercolor, anything I could get my hands on. I started to believe that maybe... I was an artist. Not just someone making things.
That art exploration now shows up in my glasswork. I think in layers, in movement, in color relationships like the way I would with paint. Glass became less about assembling pieces and more about creating something that feels alive.
