Richard Satava

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About The Artist

He utilizes numerous advanced and very technical old-world techniques in order to create his works of art.

They are so realistic that people often wonder if they’re looking at a real jellyfish preserved in glass !

Glass-in-glass is a centuries-old art form that consists of a glass sculpture inside a second glass layer, oftentimes called a shroud. The inner glass sculpture is formed first and then it is dipped into molten glass, encasing it in a solid outer glass shroud. Before it cools, the shroud is malleable so the artist can manipulate it into any shape he so desires.

Richard describes his sculptures as ; “vertically oriented, colorful, fanciful jellyfish with tendril-like tentacles and a rounded bell encased in an outer layer of rounded clear glass that is bulbous at the top and tapering toward the bottom to form roughly a bullet shape, with the jellyfish portion of the sculpture filling almost the entire volume of the outer, clear-glass shroud.”

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A Contemporary Art Gallery in Cornwall