Collector Interviews

Miami artist Matthew Green wondered if one of his ink paintings could become glass. What began as a casual question became an unexpected collaboration between two artists working in completely different mediums. This is the story of trust, creativity and how changing light transformed an idea into something neither artist could have imagined alone.

Aleta Doran has spent a lifetime looking closely at glass. She’s a mosaic artist, stained glass researcher at the University of Chester, former Artist in Residence at Chester Cathedral, and a serious collector of glass art. She wasn’t looking for more glass. She was looking for art she hadn’t seen before. This is the exclusive story of why she commissioned two large glass works from Linda Rossiter and what she did with them.

After thirty years of collecting glass, Ray Chimienti thought he had seen most of what the medium could do. Then he came across something he hadn’t seen before, not in a gallery, but on Facebook. This is the story of a serious collector, a new piece of glass art, and what happened when he decided to commission a work of his own.