Artist Bio

Rick and Tracy Bewley are mixed media artists and have been collaborating together as Art Fusion Studio for about 19 years. They enjoy working in many materials including glass, metal, wood, and acrylic fabrication. They are a husband and wife team with different and complementary abilities that allow them to design and fabricate very unique art.

They both are drawn to mixing materials that highly contrast each other, like glass and concrete, or acrylic and rusted steel. The dichotomy of these materials leads you to examine each more closely, to notice the natural blend of colors in the rust and the complexity of reflections on a polished surface. In particular they love to include an element of transparency by creating openings or adding glass, so that lighting, natural or otherwise, becomes an important part of the sculpture. The transparency also adds depth as the layers of construction are revealed and the landscape on the other side becomes a part of the design.

Piece Description

“As fused-glass artists, our approach to a project like this is to first break it down into line art representing glass pieces we can cut and is an interesting graphic,” Rick and Tracy say. “The next step is selecting the colors available in fused glass to make it work. We spent a week then cutting and assembling the pieces. Each component was fired individually and then assembled on the background and then fired again to attach everything together. Each firing is approximately 15 hours in the kiln. The final firing is always exciting. We can’t wait to open the kiln to see the results!”