Greg Smith Pi disc from USA
Greg Smith was a founder member at Avalon Glass on the West Coast of the South Island from 1985 to 1995. Greg talked about this remarkable studio in an even more remarkable talk he gave to the Glass Art Society in Seattle in 2003, and I wrote a blog entry about it in December 2012 at http://newzealandglass.blogspot.com/2012/12/avalon-glass-should-not-be-forgotten.html . In 1995 Greg set up Te Miko studio at Punakaiki with his then wife Carolyn Hewlett. As well as blown glass work they made glass jewellery. Carolyn worked as Greg's hot glass assistant. Te Miko was disbanded in 1999. In response to this image, Greg Smith said in a Facebook post in 2021: I made this material in a small open cast mold in Oceanside California with Bullseye Glass - scrap and confetti. I got one other piece out of the cast. The centre core was made using ceramic fibre board which at the time was unavailable in NZ. A great help in casting. I think it was 95. I had Arts CounciI fundin...