Borine fell in love with glass 36 years ago when she made a leaded glass window and her love of light and color was then expressed in a variety of stained glass pieces. Once she discovered fused glass though, she knew that she had found her medium. The anticipation and excitement prior to opening the kiln after a fuse is akin to Christmas morning. The wonder of it never gets old.

 

Borine has spent the last seven years immersed in this amazing medium and has learned many interesting and technical glass kilnforming techniques.  Kilnformed, fused, or warm glass as it is known, is formed by layering two or more pieces of sheet glass and then fusing it together in a kiln to form a solid piece of glass. Heat and gravity allow it to change and assume a different shape on a second firing.  

Exploring with light, texture, and depth and experimenting with the limits of glass has helped her evolve and grow in her medium. Borine has been continually drawn to the unlimited possibilities of glass and the many different ways she and warm glass both express themselves.  

 

Always having felt compelled to create, Borine has tried her hand at many different mediums, including stained glass, hoop and basket weaving, quilting, fiber art and needlework, metal art, and jewelry. But for her, nothing compares to glass. She has visited fused glass studios and galleries on the west coast and also in Norway, Sweden and British Columbia, Canada.

 

Borine is currently an instructor for COCC and has taught at the Art Station. She is a founding member and instructor at the Glass Guild of Bend and the owner of Bliss Glass

 

Her work has been shown at:
Glass Symphony Gallery, Bend
DonTerra/Vista Bonita Gallery, Sisters
The Red Chair Gallery, Bend

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