About the Artist

Artist’s Statement

I layer flat glass, powdered glass and sometimes copper to explore lighting and moments of beauty I see in the natural world. I heat my layered glass work many times, adding glass each time, to build the imagery, color and depth of a piece. My resulting flat glass pieces are up to a half inch thick.

Glass is perfect for my landscapes and botanical images because it offers deep color, transparency and visible layers through the work. I often repeat the same scene in different lighting, at various times of day or in different seasons to fully explore the various moods and changing light from a single viewpoint.

I have been working in glass for 30 years. Building on my two year apprenticeship with glass artist Narciso Quagliata and at the Pilchuck Glass School, I began fusing glass in 1994. My work and commissions are in private and corporate collections in the US, UK and Gibraltar.

Tilda Brown Swanson

Contact Details

Tilda Brown Swanson
Des Moines, Iowa
Email: [email protected]