Venus Glass

Artist Profile

Artist Profile

Venus Hot Glass is a small Christchurch-based glass blowing studio operated by glass artists Ian Walters and Tokiko Tatemoto.

They make their glass from a mixture of minerals including silica sand from Mt. Somers in the mid-Canterbury region. Once mixed these materials are then melted in a furnace at 1300ºC to form molten glass. The glass is kept hot enabling it to be blown or manipulated into a variety of forms. Crushed coloured glass is melted into the clear molten glass to give every piece its own unique and funky appearance.

Artist Statement

Working with molten glass is hot, challenging and sometimes frustrating...the process is very exciting and addictive. It requires intense concentration and stamina to form soft glowing material into hard transparent colourful glass creations, which are in total contrast to the inferno from which they were born.