Rather than being limited by the colors as they are made by the factory glassblowers, I use subtractive and additive techniques (such as acid-etching, sandblasting, engraving and painting) to alter and enrich the given glass color. The characteristic struggle of my work process is to take a sheet of glass of a single color and transform it into the desired range of values and hues, textures and densities.

The color palette that I use has been expanded by the use of hydrofluoric acid on handblown "flashed" glass. This is glass with two (or more) layers. The top layer(s) can be altered/removed with HF or sandblasting. These methods and variations allow me to work as a painter in a fluid way. In fact, I believe it is this tension between my painterly approach and the medium's intractable nature which gives the work it's life.