Becker, Nancy
Artist Statement
I have the honor of being an artist. I am accomplished in expressing through the medium of hot glass and I feel that I can spend the rest of my life exploring this material and never be complete.
I know art is a language, a communication everyone knows at a deep level and I love to speak that language. My main art vocabulary exists in glass – a complex and mesmerizing material. I have a wide range of skills and techniques which I use to communicate my absolute love of the natural world. Color, texture and attention to detail mark my pieces. I choose to create pieces to honor all of this incredible beauty we are surrounded by.
Glass is a material that is challenging by it’s very nature. It is neither a solid nor a liquid offering unique challenges at all temperatures. My personal approach to glass has become my own choreography – a personal dance.
About Nancy Becker
I have always pursued creating.
I studied art at San Diego State University and specifically glass at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. Hot glass captured me. I was doing experiments in glass fusing at Outrageous Glass in San Diego long before there was a commercial line of compatible glasses. Fused glass and hot glass – I found the material mesmerizing.
I moved to Oregon in 1981 and worked at Bullseye Glass, Uroboros Glass and Savoy Studios, all in Portland, Oregon. My focus was to develop more vocabulary. Traditionally this art form is passed from master to protegee. I have always simply persevered and continue to let the material teach me.
My work is primarily hot furnace work. I also love to sculpt so I have a series of cast glass pieces. These pieces involve a process similar to creating a bronze but the material is glass. My favorite subject for sculpting is the horse. I love experimenting in watercolors, pastels and oils as I love color and painting is a great way to simply be in the present.
I need to immerse in nature. I drink color and sky while riding my horses. I listen to the wind, the trees, the birds and time stops. I love the personal symphony available from each moment of perception. I bring that to my art forms. Glass is liquid, solid, heat, color, transparency, luminosity, and in motion. It is a challenging material willing to be transformed.
The creative process is my natural expression. Art is the result.”
Artist Code: NB