
Glass
Lynleigh Love
New to Spring 2025!
Tustin, CA
Booth 318
Featured Artist
Lynleigh is fascinated and inspired by the pure beauty of colored glass and how light can make glass dance. Her passion is color and she enjoys using brilliant hues and tones of color in her sparkling glass sculptures. She strives to bring joy and happiness to people thru her use of light and color.
Lynleigh Love grew up in Irvine, California when there were orange orchards, strawberry fields, and lots of room to roam. As a child, her mom exposed her to various art media from watercolors and acrylics to junk art and clay to dance and theater. Her earliest childhood memories include the exciting summer pilgrimages to Laguna Beach to see the “real” artists and to get inspiration for her new art projects.
At university, she took a stained-glass class to fulfill her art requirement to get her science degree. By the end of the semester, she had found her deep connection with the translucent beauty of color that only glass could give. She continued with her new stained-glass hobby until she took another glass class at Santa Ana community college where she fell in love with kiln-formed glass. Throughout Lynleigh’s career as professional Geologist; glass was her every evening, every weekend, every vacation hobby. Twenty-five years later, Lynleigh's love affair with glass has morphed into her full-time profession and she declares that she is living her dream!
Lynleigh crafts exquisite glass art using sophisticated colors, intricate details, and rhythms in textures and patterns. She is a meticulous crafter and arduous planner. She is passionate about the pure beauty of color and enjoys creating unique glass sculptures with transitional hues of colors. She often uses bright unexpected pops of color to grasp and then maintain the viewers’ attention. She loves the challenge of modifying and combining different techniques until she figures out how to make her visions real.
She has won several awards for her creations including first place in the nationwide Glass Craft Expo. She shows her sparkling glass sculptures at various prestigious art festivals in the California southland including the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts and Beverly Hills Art Show. She was honored to be featured in the July/August 2024 Glass Art Magazine with a center-fold spread. Her unusual woven glass sculptures have been shown in several southern California galleries and she instructs students wishing to explore the art of kiln formed glass.
I was inspired to create woven glass sculptures from a photo by a Canadian artist who showed the results of an experiment of firing a teepee of glass in his kiln. When it fell over during the firing, it appeared to me that it was the beginning of a basket weave which got me thinking… “Wouldn’t it be cool if I could create a woven glass fabric?” Four years later, I had finally perfected my technique.
My Linen Collection consists of a series of woven glass sculptures that are crafted using colored glass ribbons that are hand-cut from large pieces of sheet glass. I lay out my compositions and create accents to my ribbons with strings of color from the subtle to the unexpected. I often use a touch of dichroic glass for extra sparkle. I bend and weave my ribbons using the heat from my kilns and then mount my woven sculptures so that they appear to float towards the viewer.












