B I O G R A P H Y Claire Kelly partnered with her husband, glass artist Anthony Schafermeyer and created vessels using Schafermeyer's Graal Cane technique, which contains Swedish and Italian elements. They make the cane with several layers of color then they engrave away some of the layers to achieve an asymmetrical pattern. Anthony Schafermeyer and Claire Kelly created their work as a team, each working separately now. Their designs are an intricate adaptation of the Venetian cane technique. The cane (or stripes) are produced by pulling colored glass into long rods. These are cooled, cut to size and then reassembled onto a ceramic plate. The plate is heated and the glass rods fuse together as they get hot. The resulting sheet of glass is rolled up onto a glassblowing pipe and shaped into its final form. "The philosophy of our work is to achieve a basic movement and harmony that reveals itself when pattern, color and form are in agreement. Out inimitable glass vessels are the result of our combination of specialized talents and the realization of our vision."