Cynthia Myers and her Art

Almost 20 years ago, young Cynthia Myers stood in her mom's kitchen and saw something in the barnyard below which would change her life.

What she saw was a woman in a mask, wearing goggles, gloves and using her Pop's air compressor — sandblasting a huge glass window.

“I was instantly intrigued and wanted to do what she was doing” Cynthia recalls, and her love affair with glass began.

Of course at the beginning the glass was barn finds: canning jars, old wine bottles and stained glass panels. But Cynthia taught herself and taught herself well. “I am privileged to work mostly with Blenko Glass, who for over 100 years have maintained the tradition of hand made glass in America.”

In 1995 she won the prestigious NICHE Award and her work is exhibited in fine galleries and homes across the U.S., Japan, Italy, England, Norway and Greece.

“It's the light that fascinates me” she explains “the play of color and tone that carving brings out in bending light. Glass is a wonderful medium in that it plays with light, capturing it, reflecting it, sliding off a smooth surface and penetrating through to reflect the etchings. I work hard to create a design that will enhance the play of light with my glass, but my deepest hope is that these forms will have a function: to stop you during the passing of the day when the light hits the work just so, and make you say: 'Oh that's so beautiful, it makes me feel good'.”

It has been said that collectors of Cynthia Myers glasswork possess a piece of poetry.

All of Cynthia's work is carefully hand-crafted in the USA