Paul J. Stankard: Homage to Nature

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Since childhood, nature has all the time been important to Paul Stankard, and now as the world’s leading glass paperweight artist, this interest has transform the defining signature of his work. Flowers such as roses, lilacs, and orchids are depicted as are a host of fantasy flowers that the artist creates in his studio, positioned in southern New Jersey. To have a look at a Stankard paperweight is to be momentarily fooled into believing that the artist has preserved a living flower in glass, when, if truth be told, he has created one entirely from spun filaments.
Words, too, play a role, again reinforcing natural processes. Here the artist creates mosaic word canes, spelling out words like seed, wet, and scent, to name a couple of, which he then embeds in his floral creations. A more complex application of Stankard’s paperweight skill is the formation of what the artist calls botanicals, which are upright cloistered glass objects, now and again in diptych and triptych formations.
In Paul Stankard: Homage to Nature, decorative arts curator Ulysses Grant Dietz writes with ease and affection about this gregarious, immensely talented artist.
More than 180 photographs by fine arts photographer John Bigelow Taylor display on the subject of 200 paperweights and botanicals made by Paul Stankard. Also included are photographs showing the real preparation and assembly of the flowers, root people, and insects encased in glass. No other glass art book has ever shown a glass artist’s process of creation as it’s depicted here.

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