FLORENCE
GLASS ART

Florence was trained in Manual and Applied Arts at the Baharuddin Vocational Institute in Singapore from 1973 to 1975. There, she was one of forty students in the graphic design program – then known as commercial art – where she honed her skills in illustration and advertising.

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Florence’s first encounter with glass was in 1984, when she took on contracts to supply and install glass for windows. Eager to explore more ways of creating art in glass, she flew to the biggest glass trade fair in Europe, held in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1990. Florence also travelled to Seattle, US, to learn the art of glass fusing and blowing from American artists Roger Nachman and Carmen.