Handmade Platter ‘Spring Tulip’ by Janine Altman

Richly decorated handmade platter made from float glass. Using openwork glass technique (making the piece with a network of trails) to create the vivid web of glass.

Delicate and vibrant layers of fine glass encircle the piece to create the finished platter.

Artist Statement About This Piece:
Tulips are plants that have extremely beautiful and exquisite flowers and are associated with warm and positive feelings. Whose meaning is perfect love. They are known for their vivid colours and their beautiful shape, most varieties are in fact almost perfectly symmetrical. This artwork also has the particularity that it is made with a technique that I have titled Openwork Glass. It is a technique of my authorship that I have developed from inspiration in our universe and cosmos. That cosmos that surrounds us is full of mysteries, made up of gases, minerals and rocks. My intention was to create a new texture, my own glass surface, through which I could create works whose glass surface was totally different, openwork, ethereal, airy and luminous.

Handmade Platter Artist

Janine Altman hails from Uruguay. She creates stunning glass artworks using a range of techniques. These include Fused Glass, Flameworking and Pate de Verre. Altman also has her own unique way of working glass, which she calls “Openwork Glass”. This signature style is a sophisticated form that consists of joining hundreds of small bits of glass linked by metal lines. This allows Janine to make a new structure altogether.

More recently, Janine has been experimenting and investigating ways to recycle glass and be more sustainable and planet-friendly in her practice. She starts by using either broken objects or those in disuse and in her glass artworks. Many of her pieces have a geometric and abstract form, with a range of textures and tones. This results in entirely unique and irreproducible pieces. Her style is often as eclectic as it is avant-garde!

Janine has participated in a great variety of International Exhibitions and Fairs and her works are recognised by Contemporary Glass Society, UK and the National Liberty Museum of Philadelphia. Educational and social institutions, as well as private collections, hold Janine’s artworks.

Finally, Janine also teaches glass artistry and is Director of the Gallery ACCS Visual Arts in Montevideo, Uruguay. A very talented and industrious lady indeed!

Artist’s Statement

“Contemplate nature as a source of inspiration. The universe arouses our curiosity and amazes us with its details, rhythms, colours, textures, shapes and volumes. The harmony and geometry of nature motivate me and my work. “