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 cabachones and agates I find in nature which I polish, shape and wire wrap with copper or silver wire.

Biography:
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, and Alicia Lomne.
Her work has been on the cover of the Avian Veterinary Medicine Journal and in Richard la Londe’s second glass fusing book.
In the fall of 2020, she joined two rock clubs and learned about lapidary arts. She started making her own cabochons 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 a copper pendant entered in the Pacific Northwest Art School in Coupeville in October. She will start a silversmithing class in December and is interested in learning new techniques to enhance her jewelry.

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