Melanie Guernsey-Leppla

"My years working with glass have been a continual exploration inspired both by nature and by the vitreous material itself. "

Whether she is working in the studio with an occasional stray dragonfly, gardening, walking by the river, or traveling, glass artist Melanie Guernsey-Leppla finds inspiration in her observations of the intricacies of nature and her surroundings.

When something of particular interest strikes the artist, she asks herself ...