Blanka Sculpture

I was born 1953, studied vocational glass school in Svetla nad Sazavou and finished it in 1981. In 1982 I began to work at Crystalex glass works in Novy Bor. At the sampling studio of Crystalex I designed new products of cut glass and manufactured them for sample exhibitions, contract fairs and symposiums. In the eighties I continuously participated in glass competitions and was often rewarded as one of the best. I also taught at Higher and High Industrial Glass School in Novy Bor for 5 years. Nowadays I have been working for more than 20 years as an independent artist and my creation is concerned to plastic glass pictures made by hand by engraving and cutting techniques. My authorial artworks are unique combination of so called „cold technologies“. They are applied also on artworks from blown glass i.e. vases, bowls, plates or a drinking sets. The rich variety of glass objects also includes a particular assortment of handcrafted prisms enriched with engraving and cutting. But I am mainly focused on unique cut and engraved glass pictures with very impressive design which you can see here on www.saatchiart.com/artglassjiskra or on my website www.artglassjiskra.cz (there are also works which were sold in the past). Pictures are made either as original artworks or as thematic series. So far today I have made more than one hundred glass pictures and approximately 70% of them are at their owners in the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, USA, Great Britain, Australia, etc.