Linna Naomi Albin, my Grandmother for whom I was named, was a selfless woman of kindness and grace. She looked for only the good in people. Through her, my love of crystal glass and sunlight began.
My early career was spent in the world of Store Design, Marketing and the Fashion Industry. For a creative person it was a dream traveling to major cities, creating exciting retail stores, restaurants and historic restorations. It was a rewarding career that allowed my creative input to help many businesses prosper, but I also wanted to create crystal glass sculptures combining sunlight.
In 2008, our family traveled to the Czech Republic where my husband, the sculptor Jim Neel, was to teach art at the University of West Bohemia in Plzen, just south of Prague. While there, we visited several glass factories in that area of Eastern Europe and along the borders of Poland. I knew it was time to make the glass artworks I had envisioned for so long.
Creatively, I find myself always seeking something uplifting. And, when the sunrays strike the cut shards of these pieces, it allows the light to refract creating and surrounding you with gorgeous euphoric rainbow prisms dancing in the room. And it is in this moving dance that I see the reflection of my Grandmother.
Through our interest of astronomy, I have grown to love all of the possibilities of our Elegant Universe and have found it has become a vital part of my work.
It is my wish that you will enjoy my works and in them you too will be reminded of someone who has been an inspiration.
My early career was spent in the world of Store Design, Marketing and the Fashion Industry. For a creative person it was a dream traveling to major cities, creating exciting retail stores, restaurants and historic restorations. It was a rewarding career that allowed my creative input to help many businesses prosper, but I also wanted to create crystal glass sculptures combining sunlight.
In 2008, our family traveled to the Czech Republic where my husband, the sculptor Jim Neel, was to teach art at the University of West Bohemia in Plzen, just south of Prague. While there, we visited several glass factories in that area of Eastern Europe and along the borders of Poland. I knew it was time to make the glass artworks I had envisioned for so long.
Creatively, I find myself always seeking something uplifting. And, when the sunrays strike the cut shards of these pieces, it allows the light to refract creating and surrounding you with gorgeous euphoric rainbow prisms dancing in the room. And it is in this moving dance that I see the reflection of my Grandmother.
Through our interest of astronomy, I have grown to love all of the possibilities of our Elegant Universe and have found it has become a vital part of my work.
It is my wish that you will enjoy my works and in them you too will be reminded of someone who has been an inspiration.