I am confident that I am creating an original style of stained glass. There are two concepts behind my work, which are "the change from stillness to motion" and " Japanese beauty".

I prefer to use glass in my works because the feel of the glass and its deepness enable me to create a wide variety of patterns of expression that cannot be created by any other kind of material.

One unique feature of my work is that the stained glass I use is backed with silver and gold leaf, while traditional stained glass is characterized by permeability and the color of the glass. My stained glass consists of two kinds of light: one light directly reflected on the transparent glass, and the other light reflected on the leaf and through the clear glass. These two lights give a deep and stereoscopic effect to my work. By the use of leaf, which is one of the traditional techniques of Japanese art, my work resembles Japanese painting.

I started using computer graphics (CG) in 1992, and since then I have been thinking about how to create those CG images in glass.
After I learned about stained glass techniques, I introduced those techniques into my stained glass works.

Beauty changes as time goes by. Mother Earth is the source of life. Life grows in mother earth. I want to express the beauty of life.

I produce only one stained glass work by my original design; it means that I do not produce second stained glass by same design.

Tomomi Ikeda
E-mail: tomomi@fertilis.co.jp

My work was introduced to
"Stained Glass News #52" in U.S.A.