Keith Grinter

These blown glass vessels are painted with paradise paints. The images are from my habit of drawing while walking, developed while undertaking a Master of Art and Design at AUT, as a means of conveying the richness of the everyday. I develop these drawings through paintings in watercolour, until I am satisfied the image will create an interesting painting in glass.
The painting style has developed from my study of the modernist master, undertaken as part of my BFA at Quay School of Arts in Whanganui. I blow a blank with a coloured centre, which is then sand blasted and painted with three layers of Paradise Paint using very small brushes.
The piece is then heated in a kiln overnight, picked up on a blowing iron, given two more layers of glass from the furnace and then blown to many times its original size.