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Highly organic bowls with lava structures.

Waves with seafoam in sunset

As the sun goes down it makes the seafoam reflect beautifully in yellow, orange and red.

The reflection is a transparent web that lies as a three dimensional layer, above a shimmering and craze base in soft and naturally organic shapes.

The challenge in this design is to make the upper layer of colors open up - to create the idea of a web.

All in all a colorful design in several layers, that creates depth and arouses the senses with complementary colors.

Below, the large plate is shown from 4 angles. Underneath, other products are shown in the same series.

Got into good company 👍

Some of my glass art has gotten into some very good company. They are being exhibited with:

• Some of Salvador Dali’s bronze sculptures.
• His highness (HKH) Prince Henrik of Denmark’s African masks.

The first picture shows my glass plate “The sun, the moon and destiny” in the company of ”Dalinian Dancer” from 1949.

In the second picture the glass plate is in front of ”Space Elephant” from 1980, which probably is the style most of us recognize as Dali.

Dali is my absolute favorite artist. It feels a bit surreal (just as Dali’s most famous work is 😊) to be granted a part in an exhibition in the company of such amazing work of art.

The work of art can be seen in Kunstgalleriet in Slagelse.

Butterfly

Fleezy Clouds

The glass should look like a cloud cover of small multi-layered clouds that drift silently across the ocean and which it could look from space.

There is really a lot of depth and 3D effect in the glass - this is best seen in the close-up photos.

Light wall

The latest glass art Michael Kofod has made are these 5 wall lamps.

In order not to make a lot of holes in the wall - and to hide all the wires - we have made this wall of light that hangs in the gallery lines.

The light wall is really hanging in level - it is the gallery's stable walls that are so crooked.

The lampshades have the organic structure in the glass, which Michael has developed lately.

Light comes through the glass that highlights the sculpture, and the light comes out on the side.

Thus, there is only indirect light that is needed to create a nice lighting.

Blue Planet

Cracked blue glass with transparent veins with a thin cloud cover that causes the glass to resemble Earth from Space.

As the glass is slightly transparent, it is also suitable for lamps.

• The bottom is alternating blue crackling in three shades.
• The top is an almost white (french vanilla) pierced skylight that hangs over the glass.
• The challenge in this bowl is to get the top layer of glass to open into holes to make clouds that only partially cover the planet.
• The sign is kept in one color. On the other hand, there are variations in the openings of the clouds.
• All in all, a colorful bowl with multi-layer decoration that gives a good depth and challenges the senses.

Elegance

There are sharp and straight lines in these simple and timeless designs that appear very elegant.

The decorations in the middle give the series soul. They are quite complicated to make and require some precisely controlled special burns.

The series also requires a lot of grinding work.

Notice the thin transparent glass in the horizontal plane that just gives a twist.

Fairytale in the sea

A large glass relief with built-in light that you can turn up and down.

Competition Winner

On 13 September 2013, I won first prize in a competition glass with glass bowl "Dino-egg".

Glass bowl beat around 150 other works of art from Denmark and Sweden in a big glass of competition in Silkeborg.

The competition was held as part of Anla Glas's 25th anniversary. Anla Glas is the largest supplier of raw glass for glass artists in Denmark.

Winner bowl should imagine a hatched donosaurus eggs. A cracked egg shell at the bottom carrying the residues of the yolk. The bowl is made of two layers of glass, both of which are cracked, but cracked after each technique.