CALEB NICHOLS
Caleb Nichols is at an exciting stage in
his career, after some twenty years of working in glass, he
has reached the point where his ideas, not his technical
virtuosity, come first. He is still inspired by the moods
and vastness of the ocean. “It’s
interesting”, he explains, “the wilder and more
colorful I make these pieces, the more they invoke a sense
of calm. A funny kind of inverse effect.”
Nichols was influenced
greatly by Japanese art. Like all glass artisans, he has
done his share of obsessing on technique. In his quest to
“build a better vocabulary”, he has mastered
such standards as blowing, casting, annealing, and
fusing.
Nichols attended Franklin
College in Lugano Switzerland from 1977 to 1979. After his
time spent overseas he enrolled in the studio arts program
at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. There he
stumbled into glass and got hooked. He completed his
education there in 1981.