white board sketching time
Back to the Drawing Board Time-
October brought me the privilege of showing 17 of my pieces in Sutida Majarone’s GoodLivingHealth.com center grand opening. Her genuine enthusiasm for my work gave me a nice boost in the midst of some big health struggles.
That same month another of my breastplateslates was selected for the juried “Artists Choice Show” at the San Francisco Women Artist Gallery.
And then a wonderful collector from Tasmania invested in one of my breastplates as a memorial of a fire that took place in their historical home. So touching. And also scary, to carefully pack it for shipping to such a far away land. Amazing to me that my work now gets live in a place I only dream of visiting someday.
Now I’m literally back to the drawing board, where I love to evolve my designs. The slippery and oversized drawing surface is a dream for my jittery body problems. And I’m dreaming up ways I might use this white board to take prints off of…stay tuned for some time lapse videos of that experiment.
And lastly, I lately 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. 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.
