GLASS WORKS | Ayano Yoshizumi

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2020
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Japanese artist Ayano Yoshizumi, has a strong interest in the use of glass as an expressive material to create multiple, sculptural still lifes. Informed by the broad scope of her undergraduate degree, Ayano strikes a unique balance between fine art, design and craft in her creation of both objets d’art and glass homewares.

In her ICON series of glass objects Ayano utilises glass blowing, kiln-forming and enamelling. She refers to space and colour; opaqueness and transparency; and the serendipitous nature of the hot-glass medium as her ‘primary tools’. These glass bricks produced in multiple sizes and colours, hold a sculptural aesthetic appeal, especially when grouped or stacked into different formations. Her colour palette is painterly, varying from bold orange to softer greens and colourless transparencies. Influenced by Fauvism in her expressive use of colour, Ayano complements the glass forms with the application of enamel paint.