Ron Seivertson

Ron Seivertson 1961, Sacramento, California USA] is a hot glass artist who lives on the edge with an intense devotion to his craft. Creating masterpieces from the point of view that everything is possible and to do what seems can not be done.

“Hot glass artist Ron Seivertson creates light filled forms of blown and sculpted hot glass, extra ordinary in their expression and textural luminosity” Trisha Sertori, Jakarta Post

“He is clearly on the leading edge of glass blowing. His tonally rich and diverse blown art, conjures great thinking with simple pleasing forms. But Seivertson likes to break rules and molds. He investigates the far reaches of what blown glass should be and yet delivers stunningly beautiful, luminous and entertaining art.” Carolyn M. Scott, Executive Director Turtle Island Films, Santa Rosa, California USA
 
Before realizing he was destined for something else Ron spent more then 20 years in construction. He awoke the artist in him with painting and sculpturing beforefinding ‘off hand’ hot glass as his ultimate medium in 2003. From that moment Ron took to glassblowing and sculpting quickly and naturally. Ron has studied intensely in Seattle, Washington USA and Melbourne, Australia. He has attained his most masterful lessons at The Pilchuck Glass School. Being a glassblower is based in his DNA, so to speak, as he found out during his first years that his great grandfather was a glassblower from Norway and that persons with his surname have been working with Hot Glass in northern Europe for more than 200 years.

The Alchemy and fluidity of the Hot Glass process are the big drive and given the rigors of this art form, allowing magic and passion’s tenacity. Ron’s Horizon Glassworks Studio in Ubud, Bali is his arena of pursuing the creation of master pieces and the unprecedented.
In only 6 years of practice Ron Seivertson is now known and steadily emerging more and more, all over the world.  He has a strong reputation and widely regarded for producing stunning glass art works that are unique in their style and form.

Artist statement   
“Many artists have a moment of powerful influence from the works of others that compel them to go a certain direction with their work or move into a style or medium. For me it was the work of Gustav Vigeland when I visited his museum in Oslo Norway, his ability to capture human expression simply knocked me out.  

Hot Glass fits my personality, my need for quick gratification and a sense of conquest. It challenges me to explore possibilities regardless of the subject at hand. The results are immediate. Hot Glass is my competitor in many variations to exhaust my creative ambitions for the remainder of my life. Not all sculptors get the chance to work with Glass and for me it is humbling and a great privilege.

Most of my early sculptural works are about the human expression and experience, how we relate to our surroundings and others. For the last 5 years I have been living and working on Bali, the island of the Gods. It has influenced my work directly, especially the energy of highly qualified artists surrounding me. I have been experiencing a great freedom to manifest my dreams in a culture and environment that compels me every day. It opens up my power to create more and more of my personal desires and inspirations.

The conceptual idea of my work- although very important- is often secondary to my desire of challenge to create unique works. I enjoy pushing boundaries to see what is possible in the moment with hot glass in my hands. Lately I have been working collaboratively and individually with prehistoric themes representing animals, artifacts and “Early Man” specifically as found objects, bones and skulls. The subject encourages me to think of human life in the early days of humanity and is challenging me to transform their life, their emotions, drama of survival, their handicrafts, spiritual beliefs and rituals into new expressions with Glass Art Objects.