Why I love sculpture

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with round beads - after all, I probably make more lace beads in a week than anything else. But, looking back over the last month, I once more realised why my heart lies with sculpture. Including commissions and the ideas springing from my own little mind, I made:

• Roses
• Butterflies
• Dragonflies
• Munch's The Scream
• Magritte's The Son of Man (the less said, the better! ;o)
• Lilies
• Cats
• Cupcakes
• A cornflower
• A moongazing hare
• A howling wolf
• Skulls

...and I'm sure I've forgotten something! Doing sculpture means I walk through life looking at everything through the eyes of 'can I turn this into a bead' (I know others do this with patterns, so it's not just sculpture, but that's the way my mind works). It means I get a photo from a customer, of a flower growing in her back garden 'can you do these'. It means an endless journey of a balance between being true to the original, and allowing the glass and my skills to set boundaries, and the thrill when at least my skills expand and I coax something out of glass I didn't know I could.

So there you go. I love sculpture. And I know exactly what I'm doing next - which is why I'm waiting for a glass delivery!