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About Artist:
Charles G. Lotton began his full time, professional glass making creer in 1973. After melting scrap glass and experimenting with many different formulas, Charles developed his own secret formula for creating magnificent colors of glass. His passion for glass still remains today as he creates his beautiful pieces in his studio, in Crete, Illinois, where many admirers come to visit. Charles has his own distinctive style and line of art glass. He is known by his multi-flora design. Charles Lotton is included among the early pioneers of the post-Toledo Museum workshop studio glass movement catalogued in the seminal publication Contemporary Art Glass by Ray & Lee Grover, published in 1975.
History:
In 1973, Charles G. Lotton made a decision that was to impact not only his immediate future, but would also serve to shape the futures of his children. With a fascination with art glass and a passion to pursue creative expression, Lotton surrendered a successful business career in cosmetology. As Charles labored to achieve technical excellence as well as artistic beauty, his creative achievements took form under the watchful gaze of his three young sons. Following the examples of their father, David, Daniel and John Lotton have each chosen to master the art of glass making and all have become highly respected artists. Today, from all four Lotton furnaces in eastern Illinois, working against the combined challenges of heat, gravity and time, exquisite creations take shape through gentle coaxing and forceful manipulation of molten glass. In addition to the private collections of many serious collectors of art glass, the artistry of Charles Lotton can be found gracing the shelves of the Smithsonian Institute, the Corning Museum of Glass, the High Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. It has been said that just as the names Tiffany and Steuben ushered in the art glass movement of the twentieth century, Lotton Art Glass will surely lead the way into the twenty-first.
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