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Born in Denver but hailing from a little bit of everywhere, Jannine is a glass artist/lampworker/mixed media artist who planted roots in Manitou Springs, CO in 2005. She creates her pieces in her studio located at the Manitou Art Center, where she also teaches lampwork classes.
Jannine has been lampworking since 1999. She was introduced to the craft by a bead maker in Dillon, CO and her first studio was in Red Cliff, CO. She has had studios all over the country, including Jacksonville OR, Veguita NM, Taos NM, Delta CO, and she is on her third studio at the Manitou Art Center, having been a local on and off for 15 years.
Her enthusiastic personality and colorful ways are well known in Manitou, and her work is carried by many boutiques in town. Having been a creative person throughout her life, Jannine has developed her own style, which includes pushing the limits on what can be done with glass.
Jannine manipulates molten glass with the use of a blowtorch (lampworking). She works the glass in the air, and in the torch in temperatures over 1700 degrees, and uses gravity and a few tools to achieve the desired end product.
She works in Italian Soft glass (COE 104), as well as Borosilicate glass (COE 26). Originally Jannine started as a beadmaker, working with Italian soft glass (Moretti) in 1999, but in 2017, Jannine began working with borosilicate (also called Boro). The materials, equipment, and techniques of working with Boro have opened up new possibilities to make larger, stronger glass components and creations
Jannine is one of only a handful of lampworkers adept in murrine and cane work, as well as complex latticino (twisted cane) work, signature techniques of her art.
Murrine cane is like the millefiori paperweights you might see in a glass shop, where little flower “chips” are magnified inside clear glass. The little “chips” are called “Millefiori” (flowers) and are made using a type of mold while the glass is hot, then pulling long strands of this, and cutting small chips off of them for this effect.
Jannine specializes in a technique called “The hot strip method,” where each line is applied while hot, to create a cross-section that is then stretched and cut to make “chips” of the image created inside the cross-section. If you see a small bee, ladybug, a cloud puking rainbows, or even the J9 signature, it is this technique that is being created to make those details happen.
Latticino is a technique where the artist adds color to glass rods in various ways and then twists them in the heat to create cane that is then used to decorate glass pieces. This technique is used often in traditional Italian art glass, and was initially done in only milky white colored glass, which is where the name comes from, meaning “milky white strands.”
