Jeff Holmwood

Currently residing in Edmonton, Alberta, Jeff Holmwood previously attended the University of Calgary, where he stuied English. He then followed his true calling as an artist and studied glass at the Alberta College of Art and Design. He has taught glass at three of the world's most respected glass schools; Pilchuck Glass School, founded by Dale Chihuly, in Washington state;  the Penland Craft School in North Carolina; and the Red Deer College near Alberta. Jeff's other achievements include participation in the Canadian Art Glass Show in Edmonton, and a second place award at the 1994 Student Exhibition at the G.A.S. conference for the Electric Kool-Aid Bowl. Jeff's signature series, the one for which he is known best, is his Vortex Vessels. In this technically challenging and visually dramatic series, he integrates an elegant form with a complex surface design that results in a unique vortex pattern on each piece. Creating each Vortex Vessel is difficult, time consuming and subject to failure because of the many difficult to control variables of technique and chemistry. The successfully completed Vortex Vessel offers a graceful silhouette that tapers to a small point at top and bottom, with lines of black and colour swirling in a vivid pattern that is distinctive to each vessel.



Currently residing in Edmonton, Alberta, Jeff Holmwood previously attended the University of Calgary, where he stuied English. He then followed his true calling as an artist and studied glass at the Alberta College of Art and Design. He has taught glass at three of the world's most respected glass schools; Pilchuck Glass School, founded by Dale Chihuly, in Washington state;  the Penland Craft School in North Carolina; and the Red Deer College near Alberta. Jeff's other achievements include participation in the Canadian Art Glass Show in Edmonton, and a second place award at the 1994 Student Exhibition at the G.A.S. conference for the Electric Kool-Aid Bowl. Jeff's signature series, the one for which he is known best, is his Vortex Vessels. In this technically challenging and visually dramatic series, he integrates an elegant form with a complex surface design that results in a unique vortex pattern on each piece. Creating each Vortex Vessel is difficult, time consuming and subject to failure because of the many difficult to control variables of technique and chemistry. The successfully completed Vortex Vessel offers a graceful silhouette that tapers to a small point at top and bottom, with lines of black and colour swirling in a vivid pattern that is distinctive to each vessel.