Peggy Shashy - Painted, Fused Glass Artist at Garry Oak Gallery, Whidbey Island

Peggy Shashy

Painted, Fused Glass & Wire Wrap Jewelry

Artist Statement:
I am a fused glass and jewelry artist who creates my glass work with glass powders using different techniques including the liquid line, crackle glass, freeze and fuse, and pate de verre and fired in a kiln. My jewelry is made from cabochons and agates I find in nature which I polish, shape and wire wrap with copper or silver wire.

Peggy Shashy is a retired veterinarian and fused glass artist at the Garry Oak Gallery. She has been making fused glass for over twenty years. She uses mostly glass powders for her work and has taken master classes from Richard La Londe, Bob Leatherbarrow, Alicia Lomne, and Lois Manno. Her work has been on the cover of the Avian Veterinary Medicine Journal and in Richard La Londe’s second glass fusing book. She is using a modeling glass technique in her current fusing projects and was just accepted in the juried art competitions at the Pace Gallery Day of the Dead exhibit in Parker, CO and the Jag Gallery Small Matters art exhibit in Key West, FL in the fall of 2024.

In the fall of 2020, she joined two rock clubs and learned about lapidary arts. She started making her own cabochons (polished stones) and wire wrapping them. Her jewelry was accepted into the annual holiday market show at the Schack Art Center in Everett in 2023, and she received honorable mention for two copper pendants entered in the Pacific Northwest Art School in Coupeville in 2023 and 2024. She did a silversmith class in December 2023 and is interested in learning new techniques to enhance her jewelry. Her jewelry was accepted to the Edmonds Arts Festival juried art show in June.

Web Site: http://pasazzfusedglass.weebly.com/