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pro le: ellen blakeley
products
By Jana Schiowitz
glass act
Ellen Blakeley never thought that glass broken by vandals at San Francisco bus shelters would change her life. Using a technique she now coins “glassing,” she painted a piece of wood with bright colors, covered it with a clear, wet epoxy to act like a hardener, and then placed the glass on top, allowing the color behind to shine through. “I stopped dead in my tracks one night because I understood I was on to something that I’ve never seen before,” explains Blakeley, a mosaic artist based in Santa Rosa, California, who also does paintings, sculptures, and murals with her tempered glass technique. With artists as parents, it’s no surprise that art was the only subject Blakeley was interested in growing up. After receiving a master’s in fine arts from Mills College in Oakland, California, she sculpted, did tile work for Hastings Tile & Bath, and worked in the housewares business making coasters, mirror frames, bowls, and vases. But after an overwhelming response to her glasswork, she made that her focus in 1994, found thinner, tempered glass, and honed in on the tile business where now numerous showrooms like Artistic Tile and places like Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, and Spa Radiance in San Francisco showcase her designs. “I was so attracted to the way it looked and I have been running with it ever since,” she says. Her process is simple: color dictates her work. In her new Elements Collection, Pompeii is inspired by her memory of walking around the city’s red rubble and Amazon draws on hues found in jungle wildlife. She has embarked on a new series, Bark, and is getting ready to launch a water series featuring different shades of blue. “There is an obsession with jewels that humans have,” she says. “Glass is magic.” www.ellenblakeley.com
Clockwise from top left: Ellen Blakeley in her garden outside her studio and home; the Degas Dress, a piece made for a San Francisco art show; Tiny Dancer from the Bark Collection; Wild Mango, a tile from the Spotlight collection with playful, citrus-like colors; the You Are Here sphere; an Asian-inspired end table; and one of the Elements Collection’s glass tiles, After Dark, inspired by how New York looks at night, in the rain, with surrounding street lights.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Hospitality Design - July 2010
Hospitality Design - July 2010
Contents
Online Contents
From the Editor
People
Sketchbook
Interview
Profile
IIDA/HD Product Design Competition
Outdoor Finds
The Power of Women
Success: What it Takes
Women of Influence
Back Space
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