“My work explores the
innate relationship between the nature of glass and the
organic forms and colors of our environment.”
Ed Branson’s work focuses on the creative
glassblowing process. While trained and experienced in a
variety of traditional glassblowing techniques, he chooses
to stretch his knowledge and experiment as he explores the
nature of the glass. His curiosity and inventiveness have
led him to discover many new techniques that he
incorporates in his pieces, whether he is working with
opaque, transparent, ladled or blown glass.
His pieces capture the beauty, color and form of the
medium, but also some of what he considers the
‘magic’ of glassblowing.
“I’m not trying to create new forms and colors
as much as I’m trying to discover them. Mastering
glass is in understanding it, not controlling it.”
Education
-Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, BA, 1979
-Somervail Craft School, Colorado, 1984, Will Dexter
-Haystack School of Crafts, Maine, 1986, Dan Dailey &
Lino Tagliapietra
-Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, 1993, Martin Blank
-Haystack School of Crafts, Maine, 1999, Robert Carlson
-The Studio, Corning, NY 2000, Lino Tagliapletra