Meet the Artist

Most people think that the Northwest is filled with rain, tall Douglas fir trees, green moss, ferns and mushrooms, and of coarse pot-growing hippies. That is probably all true but I’m neither, except for my ty-dyed tee shirts…

My name is Tom Jensen, a native of the Pacific Northwest living in a very small town called La Center, Washington USA, 25 miles north of Portland Oregon. In fact, our town is so small we don’t even have a traffic light. But we do have a round-about! Oh yah!
We love it here.

Like many, glass artistry captured my attention back in the 1990’s when I started blowing glass in our local hot shop. I was captured by the manipulative properties of molten glass and the creativity of turning something solid, into hot molten liquid and then back to a solid. Add to that explosive colors, textures, glass frits, gold, silver and copper metals, and the stunning beauty - and I felt like I was conducting a symphony of beautiful music - only it was glass…. I’m now doing that in my glass kiln.

Years have passed since those experiences and life has added many more. I’ve traveled to the Island of Murano Italy many times in search of glass and have seen the great maestros at work creating beautiful glass art. Yes it is art. I have learned that some people in life walk around and their world is figuratively colored gray. And I have learned that there are others, whose world is full of beautiful color - warm and glowing. It’s all about what you choose to see. Glass art is like that - Seeing it on the table as a beautifully hand-crafted and unique glass bowl, or an incredibly beautiful Murano glass necklace pendant - exploding with color, hanging from your neck.
Life IS a symphony of color! At least it should be…