Janice Moorhead

Artist’s Bio

Although Janice has developed her reputation as a glass artist, her formal art education (B.A. honours Visual Arts, University of Ottawa 1979) consisted primarily of painting, drawing, and printmaking. Hence her approach to glass has always been with the sensibility, the visual aesthetic, of a painter.

Her experiments with glass began in 1985 when she developed a layering technique. Shards of glass are sandwiched between two layers of glass, allowing Janice to create images without the use of distracting solder lines. Now the heavy line of the soldered joint is no longer the main feature. The glass itself dominates the field of vision! And the edges of the glass shards, now exposed, are the most exquisite visual element.

Although the motifs which Janice employs vary from the figure, to the landscape, to the quilt, her subject, the play of colour and light, is a constant source of inspiration.