Tolly Nason

Alongside her career as a glass artist, Tolly has a degree in Textiles and works as a professional photographer. Tolly has a passion for natural subjects and she travels extensively in search of inspiration. Her glasswork, which developed under some of the most influential and eminent glass artists in Sweden and the U.S., frequently focuses on the theme of extinction or unnoticed flora and fauna. Tolly’s diverse creative backgrounds are mirrored by the variety of glass techniques she employs. With Pate-de-Verre, she expresses the beauty and fragility of glass found in her most recent series Living Rocks and Whimsicals. In contrast, the solid density of the cast glass finch beaks in her magnum opus Seeing the Light: Finch by Finch boldly reinforce the significance of the Galapagos finches to Darwin’s theory of evolution.