for the eye are conjured up in glass and enamel colours by Freia
Schulze. Fruit in various colours, flowers, stars, dots and fantastic
creatures circle and swarm around her small pieces of art: paperweights
and glass. Through the interplay between light and occasionally
transparent, engraved and cut glass subjects she creates a variety of
effects which are extremely precious.
Engraving and cut glass are at the forefront of her work. After her
sketches the glass body is blown in a studio in Stockholm in Sweden. Enamel colour is applied later onto the whole surface of the container. It is burnt onto the glass at 540 degrees centigrade. From fine metal
sheets tiny things and little figures are cut out and stuck onto the
coloured areas of the glasses to make a decoration or an ornamental
ribbon. Afterwards the container is sand-blown with the fine grained
sand from a pistol. The result is that only the area which has been
covered remain, in the spaces in between the colour and surfaces gets
removed and grounded by about a millimetre.
Freya Schulze has
opened up for herself a wide spectrum of modelling possibilities. She
acquired a style all of her own and with it has received a lot of
attention in expert circles. She studied shaped glass cutting with
Professor C. Habermeier at the College of Art in Schwäbisch Gmuend. After her diploma she spent a year at the College of Applied Arts in
Stourbridge in England. Today she keeps a studio in the old town of
Lübeck. In 2007 Freia Schulze got the Justus Brinckmann Award, Hamburg.