GrynnGlass
Location
Portland, OR, United States
Quick Blurb
We are kilnformed glass artists who collaborate on everything you see here.
Greg and Lynn (Grynn)
Interests
Glass, functional art, jewelry, beading, inclusions, travel, family
Skills and Techniques
We do a variety of techniques in the arena of kilnforming glass. We utilize basic layering, edge work, pattern bars, pot melts, inclusions, kiln carving, and liquid glass and enamels in the forms of GlassLine, Liquid Stringer Medium, and others. Our firings range from slumping through casting temperatures. We make some of our own molds. We also utilize various cold working processes and do some lamp work.
Find me online @:
http://grynnglass.comGet to Know
Grynn Glass is a collaborative effort of Greg Frye and Lynn Silbernagel. We are friends, life partners, business partners, and art partners. Like our life in general, all of our work is collaborative. For some items this may only mean asking for or offering opinions about color combinations; for other pieces we work through design ideas, the assembly and firing processes, as well as finishing through coldworking and packaging. Greg's tendency is to work on larger pieces, while Lynn loves utilizing scrap and creating smaller works. We believe that art can also be functional and pride ourselves on producing mainly functional items.
We have both been working in kilnformed glass for a number of years, and have taken classes at the Bullseye Resource Center in Portland, Oregon as well as overseas. Greg has also done courses with Gil Reynolds, Steve Klein, and Marc Petrovic. Among the topics we have studied are general kilnforming, bead making and other torchworking, coldworking, edge firing, slumping, kilncarving, casting, and roll-ups. We also teach kilnforming to students from 4th to 12th grades and offer one-on-one workshops for adults.
Greg is particularly fascinated with the duality and plurality of things in the world. Glass is a marvelous medium with which to explore these phenomena as it also has dual and seemingly opposite characteristics -- it is solid and liquid, transparent and opaque, linear and fluid, flat and shaped, colored and colorless. Many of his pieces incorporate a variety of these qualities. He prefers to leave interpretation of his work to the viewer rather than stating a specific intention for each. This allows for different perspectives thus enhancing the plurality.
We hope you find things that catch your eye, that strike a chord within you, and that are unique. We love doing custom work, so please let us know if you would like to work together to create something based on what you see here or something completely original.
Greg & Lynn (Grynn)
We have both been working in kilnformed glass for a number of years, and have taken classes at the Bullseye Resource Center in Portland, Oregon as well as overseas. Greg has also done courses with Gil Reynolds, Steve Klein, and Marc Petrovic. Among the topics we have studied are general kilnforming, bead making and other torchworking, coldworking, edge firing, slumping, kilncarving, casting, and roll-ups. We also teach kilnforming to students from 4th to 12th grades and offer one-on-one workshops for adults.
Greg is particularly fascinated with the duality and plurality of things in the world. Glass is a marvelous medium with which to explore these phenomena as it also has dual and seemingly opposite characteristics -- it is solid and liquid, transparent and opaque, linear and fluid, flat and shaped, colored and colorless. Many of his pieces incorporate a variety of these qualities. He prefers to leave interpretation of his work to the viewer rather than stating a specific intention for each. This allows for different perspectives thus enhancing the plurality.
We hope you find things that catch your eye, that strike a chord within you, and that are unique. We love doing custom work, so please let us know if you would like to work together to create something based on what you see here or something completely original.
Greg & Lynn (Grynn)
