"When creating my glass work I am translating the ephemeral forms of the natural world into the perceived permanence of glass.
My approach to form specifically is an attempt to reflect the proportional balance in naturally occurring forms.

I like to look at individual design elements within any life form, like the way the tines of an antler taper to a soft point, the way a sweet pea vine curls its tiny tendrils as it climbs a trellis, or the spiral of a nautilus shell. I've found this magnification of nature is my method for discovering sculptural forms that aesthetically satisfy.
The sculptures made by nature always look proportional because of the laws of the universe.
There are a series of numbers that mathematically explain this universal architecture, as you may know, called the Fibonacci series, also known as the "golden ratio". It begins with 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8 5+8...and so on into infinity, it is my recipe.

Nature informs my color choices less so than it does the forms I make, but it does play a part. Dazzling colors of the fish I've seen while snorkeling, and bright tropical flowers have influenced my garden art, and adding the punchy pop of vivid, saturated colors to most of my work imparts a contemporary feel. As I develop larger scale vessel designs, and sculptures, I have begun to steer toward the subtle, I try to balance color choices so that they don't overwhelm or compete with texture and form of any design I create.
In my new series of work I call "Space Fruit" I invent and imagine what plants and animals, or combinations thereof, we might someday find on other planets.
In the Space Fruit series are vessels with sculptural stoppers for which I have chosen very light, more subtle jewel tones, so the bottom of the stopper can be seen clearly through the vessel.
In this series I have also used a good deal of sand-carving to impart a more velvety and sea-creature type of texture to the Dragon Fruit and it's Seed Pods (currently only available at a few fine galleries in Florida).

Living things are always changing, going through seasonal cycles, ages and stages. Impermanence is one of the only things we can depend on.
Glass is a liquid material. It will continue to melt forever, though when cooled to our regular environmental temperature, it is on a slower schedule, it moves at the speed of geologic time, slowly, constantly melting. Any glass flower or pair of crystal antlers I make will be around for generations to come, possibly for thousands of years, but in a million years, will be a puddle of blue, or green, or solid clear crystal. That is an inspiring thing, to be working with a material that is forever changing.

I'm always working on new bodies of work, and looking toward the future as I learn and grow as an artist. Every Piece of glass I make is infused with my positive intention, and a playful spirit of mirth and love.
My passion is to bring joy with my artworks by helping surround my collectors with uplifting color and emotive forms.
For the last twenty three years I've always remained extremely grateful to have found my dream job in glass, and thanks to collectors like you, my dream lasts and lasts."
Ana