whiteboard sketching time
Back to the Drawing Board Time-
October brought the privilege of showing 17 of my pieces in the GoodLivingHealth.com center grand opening. The same weekend one of my breastplateslates was selected for the juried “Artists Choice Show” at the San Francisco Women Artist Gallery. The genuine enthusiasm for these bodies of work gave me a real morale boost.
Then a wonderful collector from Tasmania invested in a breastplates as a memorial piece for a fire that claimed part of their historical home. So touching. It took a lot of care packing the delicate piece for shipping to such a far away land. And now my work now gets to live in a place I can dream of visiting someday.
Now I’m back to the drawing board (literally), where I love to evolve my designs. This slippery and oversized drawing surface is a dream for my jittery body problems. And I’m dreaming up ways to use this white board to take painted prints off of…time lapse videos of that experiment coming soon to my Instagram.
And lastly, lately I find myself simply using this drawing time to process the many emotions arising from all we’re exposed to about the state of the world. I hope you’re finding healthy ways to navigate and process these troubling times too. And please know I still have so much love in my heart for us all.
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Welcome
I’m Zora Neuhold-Huber, an artist based in Northern California who’s primary medium is glass, using an innovative systems of joining hand blown and stained glass as well as reclaimed mirror and window glass.
My artistic roots can be traced back to my fathers woodwork shop, my mothers weekend painters co-op and a chance encounter with the glow of hot glass furnaces on a late night walk during college in Madison, Wisconsin. Earning a fine arts degree there in 1985 I launched into a lifelong fascination with all glass and this unusual way of working with it.
I first taught glassblowing and design at Punahou Academy in Hawaii and then started a family. Eventually the art became more private, inward and primal as I transitioned into teaching yoga as my primary source of income. Then life took a turn, I got very ill with a mysterious illness that was eventually diagnosed as neurological Lyme disease.
Unable to continue teaching yoga, I leaned into my art to help me understand how to survive this illness. And now, almost 10 years later, my art has become the primary way to harvest insight and resilience to help me cope. It’s helped me see that life can feel simultaneously shattered and beautiful…just like the glass.
It’s a privileged to still be alive, to tread this creative path and become more public with the art. And I hope you might find it of interest or inspiration. Please be in touch.
