Where images transform inside the kiln.
Kiln-formed glass and glass sculpture from the Oregon coast — images sandblasted into glass, then awakened with enamels and heat.
Selected Work
Kiln-formed glass and cast sculpture. Many pieces begin with one of Kate's own photographs, reworked through a complex photoscreening process, and carried through into glass.
Image into Glass
Kate works with a process of her own — a photoscreening technique that lets an image live permanently inside the glass.
The Photograph
Each piece originates with one of Kate's own photographs — the start of the image she wants the glass to hold.
The Photoscreen
A photoscreen film carries that image onto the glass surface, masking it precisely for what comes next.
The Sandblasting
The exposed areas are sandblasted, etching the image into the surface of the glass.
Enamels & Fire
Enamels are rubbed into the blasted image to draw it out and give it color, and the kiln fuses everything into permanent form.
The resulting artwork is a unique image fixed in glass.
A kiln-formed glass artist and sculptor working on the Oregon coast, turning images into objects of light.
Kate Saunders lives and works in Neskowin, Oregon, where the coast and its light shape much of what she makes. Her work moves between kiln-formed glass and sculpture, held together by a photoscreening process she has made her own.
Her pieces have been shown in Guardino Gallery, Chessman Gallery, Cannon Beach Gallery, and elsewhere.
— Kate
Get in touch
Available for commissions, exhibitions, and gallery inquiries.
katefsaunders@gmail.com