Week 4: Making a Pancake Plant from Glass

Glass had already fascinated me for a long time, and I had been following Gregory Moulin, the glass artist, for some time. Embarking on the journey of the Artist’s Way, it felt like the right time to book a glass workshop and I was really looking forward to it.

I wasn’t disappointed. There was plenty of variety in what we had to do to get to the end result (photo above): we had to cut the glass, grind it, and then solder it to make the pieces look like leaves. In total, it took us a little over 4 hours to make a pancake plant from scratch.

Like I had in previous weeks, I often checked in with how I felt in the moment. I can strongly advise doing this, as every time I checked in, I was brought back again to the present moment. It was always a new opportunity to become engaged in what I was doing.

Gregory has workshops for other objects. I’ll keep on following him, as one never knows when I’ll run out of artist dates ideas.

This is the website of the glass artist (Dutch only):

https://www.gregorymoulin.com/