Elizabeth Parsons
Elizabeth Parsons has been learning glass blowing regularly at Ruth Allen’s studio since June 2022, having fallen in love with the medium after taking a one day workshop in early 2022. She has been concentrating on the technical aspects of glassblowing and colour applications, moving towards cane and murrine. During the last year she has attended two workshops at Corning Museum of Glass with Christa Westbrook and Dan Friday, along with a workshop at Urban Glass with Jimmy Anderegg. Her ongoing glass vision is to bring the nature and wildlife she photographs into glass, bringing together her two artistic mediums.
In the two weeks prior to the Glass Futures workshop, I was lucky enough to be travelling in Alaska, mainly photographing wildlife. When I saw the full colour spectrum of an iceberg from dark blue all the way to white, it immediately provided me with my colour inspiration for my glass murrine. I then started looking at all the colours I was seeing - the rocks and the trees – as I realised Alaska was providing me with the colour palates to be able to create a series.
Alaskan Rocks, (detail) 2025. Glass, 130 H x 140 W x 70mm D. Photographed by Fred Kroh.
Alaskan Iceberg, 2025. Glass, 130 H x 140 W x 70mm D. Photographed by Fred Kroh.
