Circa 2010, the hand-blown glass orb by Lisa Oakley, with lively organic blue-green mottling, signed Oakley Glass, surmounting a five-part ceramic totem with blue-green glaze by Jennifer Stas and Tim Turner, unsigned, mounted on a custom tiered wooden base with interior rod support.

83 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.

Collection of a Lady, Youngsville, North Carolina

Lisa Oakley began blowing glass in 1994 when she immediately fell in love with the heat and fluidity of molten glass. She knew that glass was the creative outlet for which she had been searching and went on to build the first hot glass art studio in eastern North Carolina. Much of Lisa's inspiration comes from the complexity of colors and patterns found in nature. Her work conveys a feeling of organic movement and texture, both visual and tactile. Her work includes both decorative and functional vases, bowls, platters and ornaments. She is also one of the few American glassblowers making furnace-pulled glass beads, which she then uses to create her own original line of jewelry.Lisa Oakley's hot glass studio is nestled between a forest and group of buildings housing both glassblowers and potters on the grounds of Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmoor, North Carolina. Her parents, Sid and Pat Oakley, both potters, started the gallery with their own work in 1968. Over the last fifty-three years it has grown to support more than ten resident artists and over 250 regional and national craftspeople. Lisa splits her time between blowing glass and operating the gallery.

Tim Turner started his clay adventure at Appalachian State University in the mid-70s, where he met and worked with many remarkable craftspeople in Penland, NC. Tim attempts to find strong, simple forms in creating his work to be understated in decoration and soft-spoken in manner. Most of his works are made from high fired stoneware and fired in a gas kiln to 2345 degrees. Patterns are drawn with wax and then sprayed with a final glaze.

Jennifer Stas creates her work from mid-range stoneware clay. Each piece is handbuilt or thrown.The fundamental goal of her work is simple: a marriage between aesthetics and function, created through the distinctive use of color and form. Jennifer finds all the inspiration she needs in the endless imagery of the mountains of North Carolina, which she tries to reflect in her pottery.

Good estate condition.