Paul and Lori Engle

Paul and Lori Engle are a husband and wife team living in North Central Massachusetts with the simple goal of creating jewelry and small art objects of the highest quality from glass and other natural materials. They live on a lazy pond surrounded by large pine trees in a quiet rural community. Their studio looks out over the small pond and all the happenings along the shore and in the water. Much of the inspiration for their work comes from nature; the plant and animal life in their yard, old botanical drawings, work from the Art Nouveau period and the beautiful patterns of William Morris

Lori's lampworking career started in 1997 after attending a Bead Exhibition curated by Kristina Logan. On that night, the beauty of glass beads became the inspiration for a career change; unlocking the door to a new life, and fulfilling her need to express herself through art. She took her first of many classes with Gail Crosman Moore who soon became her mentor and dear friend. She is constantly trying new techniques, materials and playing with shape and color.

Paul's passion for pate de verre was fueled by a class he took in Provence France in the summer of 2002. Taught by Marie-Odile Savingy, he took quickly to making molds for the powdered glass and the many stepped process for making pate de verre. Paul is always doodling and designing new functional pieces.

Paul has self published 2 volumes of a 3 volume English translation of Antonio Neri's L'Arte Vetraria, .(The Art of Glass) first printed in 1612. The third volume to be published in 2005.