Tivol Studios

Jane Tivol has always had a passion for glass. She is fascinated by the way it is so comfortable in its natural, molten, fluid state. At the same time it looks right at home in its "Super-cooled" solid state. Glass that has been formed using heat processes such as a torch, a furnace, or a kiln seems to retain a quality that makes it appear to be trapped in a state somewhere between fluid and solid.
In the summer of 2000 she packed up everything she could fit into my little convertible and left Venice Beach, CA to venture to the Pacific Northwest. She was going to go be a glass blower. She had never been to Oregon or Washington but heard that this was the place to be if you wanted to work with glass.
She stumbled upon a job with a glass company in Portland, Oregon. She had no idea what she was in for. She ended up working for the largest manufacturer of handmade fusible art glass in the world, pioneers in fusible glass, The Bullseye Glass Company. Just one problem…What the heck was fused glass?
Bullseye put her through their series of classes on working with "Warm glass." This process was so amazing, so limitless. Who had time to think about blowing glass anymore? Through her constant nagging and interrogation techniques she managed to really get the gears in her head turning. She became a glass geek. She also nearly drove her mentor, Christy Corbett, to strangling her. Sje was hooked and wanted to try it all.
In her attempts to try everything she managed to blow up a few things in the kiln, set the floor of the studio on fire and of course cut herself too many times to even try to remember. She was also getting an education in working with glass that was invaluable. You just have to learn to love those mistakes as much as you love the successes.
After two years in Portland she decided to come back home to California. Even though she is far away from the glass Mecca that is The Pacific Northwest she is around other artists and there are many ideas inspired by life in California.
As she has created her body of work she often choose names for the pieces based on people and places that have inspired her. So with her artist-heart she continues to discover new ways to share her experiences and memories through her glass artwork. Her work is currently available in a variety of galleries throughout the United States and a few other countries.