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About Robert Held. Creating the most beautiful glass works that I can, has been my personal goal or mantra for my entire life. Growing up in a creative home, I started drawing things in the 5th grade and have not stopped yet. My father was a sculptor, my mother his model. Together they instilled a creative, and supportive environment that has ...
Robert Held was a ceramics artist before discovering glassblowing in the late 1960s. He started the glass program at Sheridan College, pioneering art glass in Canada. In 1978 he began his own glass studio, that was known known as Robert Held Art Glass and was located in Parksville, BC. Robert Held is retired now, so this is the last work we ...
Robert Held. Born in Santa Ana, California, Robert Held aspired to be an artist from an early age. His father, a sculptor, only lived six years of his son’s life, but passed on the talent and appreciation of art that gave Robert the beginnings of a quest to create beauty in form and color.In High School his paintings won him the “Ebell Award” for promising students.
In 1968, after a visit to the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Robert Held discovered a new love: the art of glassblowing. He returned to Sheridan College inspired and succeeded in launching Canada's first college level hot glass program in 1969. This program allowed many Canadian artists to become skilled in this medium, and crowned ...
Legendary glass blower Robert Held continues to create art glass masterpieces at his studio in Parksville on Vancouver Island.
Jun 23, 2023 · From Mesopotamia to Art Nouveau to Robert Held - the Technique of Glass Feathering. In this blog we’ll take a very brief trip through history and look at the origin of glassmaking, the “feathering” design element, the Art Nouveau glass movement and end with Robert Held’s blown glass vessels which feature the feathering technique.
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