Art Glass vases by Caitlin Burch

Caitlin Burch grew up with glass. An award winning, second generation glassblower (Robert Burch is her father); she spent time in the studio with her mother and father from infancy. "My mother would work with me in a pack on her back and my father would let me help him on the bench starting when I was three or four".

"My initial inspiration for working with glass is its inherent grace and beauty. The ability to transfer can capture the organic fluidity of the molten glass in a finished form or vessel is absolutely magical and amazing".

Now with two lines of work, handblown glass and lampwork jewelry, Burch is practicing both crafts. "The fact that I work in two related fields, offhand glass and lampworking, has allowed me the unique and challenging opportunity to incorporate individual techniques and skills of each into the other." "Glass is binding. My father has always talked about dancing with the glass and living with it. I believe I finally understand what he means. It is a part of me now, a part of everything I do. I love it".