Jared Davis, now in his early
thirty’s was born in New York City and raised in
Aspen, Colorado. He has spent the last 8 years working with
blown glass, beginning at K Dahl Glass Studios. In 1995,
Davis was introduced to Swedish glass masters, Jan-Erik
Ritzman and Sven Ake Carlson, who invited Davis to study
with them in Transjo, Sweden, for two years. Prior to his
trip to Sweden, in the winter of 1996, Davis studied
Italian style glass blowing and glass sculpting at The
Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, Washington.
The apprenticeship ended in July 1998. Davis then returned
to Crawford, Colorado with his family. Until recently he
has been an active glass blower and designer for K Dahl
Glass Studios, although he is still one of Dahl’s
main glass blowers he concentrates most his time designing
and blowing his own work for his business, Davis Glass.
Davis says the appeal which glass has for him is due to its
ability to reflect, absorb and transfer light. With the use
of opaque and transparent colors placed in conjunction with
each other, it seems possible to capture the many luminous
qualities of glass. When working with blown glass, he is
working with molten materials, which follows a viscous path
according to where it is hottest and coolest. During his
apprenticeship Davis mastered some of the more difficult
shapes by learning to control the glass in its most
difficult form.