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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Why Art is important to a Home
At the end of the day a home is nothing but a blank canvas; it only becomes a HOME, when you start to fill it, with your own personal collection of pieces.
Pieces that allow you to stamp your own style and individuality to the space.
When you walk in your house and it has that level of meaning to you, then you are truly home and you can truly relax and be at peace and enjoy your creation. Yes, I said your creation.
You see, collecting art allows you to create your own, most important, giant work of art: your home environment. Living with art or living in a creative home can simply make you happy.
Art isn’t just a painting, it can take many forms: Hand Blown Glass, ceramics, timber and sculpture. Whatever medium ‘have to have’ art piece grace your personal space, dynamically connecting other items in a home, with compelling visual impact - which is YOU.
Pieces that allow you to stamp your own style and individuality to the space.
When you walk in your house and it has that level of meaning to you, then you are truly home and you can truly relax and be at peace and enjoy your creation. Yes, I said your creation.
You see, collecting art allows you to create your own, most important, giant work of art: your home environment. Living with art or living in a creative home can simply make you happy.
Art isn’t just a painting, it can take many forms: Hand Blown Glass, ceramics, timber and sculpture. Whatever medium ‘have to have’ art piece grace your personal space, dynamically connecting other items in a home, with compelling visual impact - which is YOU.
What is Dichroic Glass
Dichroic Glass is somewhat of a misnomer, since the dielectric coating that produces all the interesting colours is not glass at all, but a thin multi-layer coating of metal oxides and quartz crystals, with a total thickness of three to five millionths of an inch. It is produced by a highly technical vacuum deposition process.
This stack of the thin layers produce an “interference filter” commonly used in lens systems in the science world. Glass Artists now use glass coated in this way to create the varied and unique colour characteristics we see in pendants, rings and bracelets today.
In heating the Dichroic coating and bringing the glass to melting temperatures the coating crazes and the colour changes. This is a permanent colour shift and is dependent on temperature, exposure time and the number of re heats necessary to finish the piece. The coating that is created is very similar to a gemstone and the way these works of art catch the light and sparkle, has been compared to the brilliance of an Opal.
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