Nancy Becker Studio

I have always pursued creating.

I studied art at San Diego State University and specifically glass at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. Hot glass captured me.  I was doing experiments in glass fusing at Outrageous Glass in San Diego long before there was a commercial line of  compatible glasses. Fused glass and hot glass  - I found  the material mesmerizing.

I moved to Oregon in 1981 and  worked at Bullseye Glass, Uroboros Glass and Savoy Studios, all in Portland, Oregon. My focus was to develop more vocabulary. Traditionally this art form is passed from master to protegee. I have always simply persevered and continue to let the material teach me.

My work is primarily hot furnace work. I also love to sculpt so I have a series of cast glass pieces. These pieces involve a process similar to creating a bronze but the material is glass. My favorite subject for sculpting is the horse. I love experimenting in watercolors, pastels and oils as I love color and painting is a great way to simply be in the present.

I need to immerse in nature. I drink color and sky while riding my horses. I listen to the wind, the trees, the birds and time stops. I love the personal symphony  available from each moment of  perception. I bring that to my art forms. Glass is liquid, solid, heat, color, transparency, luminosity, and in motion. It is a challenging material willing to be transformed.

The creative process is my natural expression. Art is the result. "

Art in the High Desert Fine Art Festival

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Bend, Oregon

Founding Board Member

Local14

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Portland, Oregon 

My Own Two Hands

Americana Project, Sisters Folk Festival

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