Liz Peet

The artwork of Liz Peet creates a domestic nar-rative by exploring cultural trends, standards, and taboos. In response, her work suggests unexpected juxtapositions for the viewer’s contempla-tion. Liz feels that hand blown glass holds a unique warmth and reveals a history of its making from a bubble of breath or the effect of a cool breeze. Her work reflects a human touch and personality. She is drawn to the subtle nuances and im-perfections of the everyday through light, optics, color and lack of color. Utilizing mixed media, hot glass, neon, and fibers, her pieces exploit themes of women’s work, voyeurism, the accepted, and the unacceptable.
Liz Peet received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University, New York State College of Ceramics, School of Art and Design. She has worked for the Pilchuck Glass School since 2001 and was recently nominated for the Saxe Award. Liz moved to Teton Valley, Idaho in 2006 because she enjoys horses, snow and mountains. She hosts weekly figure drawing ses-sions for the Teton Arts Council and continually strives to chal-lenge her eye. The work of Liz Peet can be viewed on her website,

www.hotglasscandy.com

Many of Liz Peet’s hand-blown glass vessels utilize a modern adaptation of a traditional Swedish Graal technique. During this 4multi-step process, a blank bubble is blown and cooled overnight. This bubble is then sand-blasted with an image, engraved by-hand, and enamels are painted into the sandblasting. The graal blank is then slowly, reheated to 1100° and picked back up on a blow pipe. At this point the enamels are incased in another layer of clear glass and the image expands as the final form is blown.