My name is Melissa Antul and Glass Transformations is the place where I indulge my inner need for beauty in my life by creating affordable luxury and strikingly unique pieces for your home, your body and as gifts to share your unique taste with others. Glass has always fascinated me. As a retired psychologist, I have always been intrigued by what lies beneath the surface and how what you initially
experience can be transformed into something even more beautiful and unanticipated. Fused glass has become my favorite medium for creating and I now spend most of my time as a NH Made Fused Glass artist and glass addict! I am always amazed at how the materials I use can be beautiful in and of themselves, and then I can still help transform these separate entities into striking and unique new combinations. The glass has a mind of it's own. Like a person, I can encourage it to become what I envision, but the final result is always something unique to itself. I want to share this beauty with others. Each piece of glass has it's own personality that blossoms when melted in my 1200-1500 degree kilns. I create each unique fused glass piece in my home in Sanbornton New Hamphsire. Large sheets of glass - clear, opaque, iridized or dichroic are scored, cut and sometimes ground to achieve the desired shapes. Pieces are cleaned, stacked together and fired in one of my kilns at temperatures that get up to 1200 to 1500 degrees, at least once and as much as 5 times, depending on the results needed. As a resident of the NH Lakes Region, it's easy for me to look to the nature around me for inspiration from NH birches to glow-in-the-dark galaxies. Each piece of glass is a one-of-a-kind signed work of art created to reflect your uniqueness and enhance your life
