SujuGlassArt and Lighting is a stained glass online store with glass pieces made by Susan Jutila-Walde.  I also have an Etsy Store; SujuGlassArt, where you can find customer reviews concerning my glass pieces or make a custom order.  You are able to purchase my glass pieces from both sites.   As a stained glass artist, I work out of my home studio experimenting with new designs.  Every day is a new experience with new inspiration.   With it's beautiful transparency,  translucence and/or colorful opaqueness, glass is an unforgiving medium, once you score and break the glass you are committed to the color, shape and texture.  With many of the visual arts you have more flexibility, having the freedom to rework areas of your work before you finish the piece.  With stained glass you score, break and solder, once your piece is complete you hold it to the light, and learn from it.  I am always trying to improve; striving to grow as a glass artist with each piece I produce.  I work with lead came (Gothic window method), zinc came and leaded copper foil.  The leaded copper foil method was developed by Louis C Tiffany for his art objects.  Some of my pieces are strictly made with glass and lead came, while others incorporate or are made entirely with glass and  leaded copper foil.  Concerning my education, I received a Visual Arts degree in 1993 emphasizing mixed media painting and sculptural ceramics, subsequently my art aspirations were deferred in order to help raise two sons.  I started working with glass as a hobby in 2010.  Since then, I have made a plethora of glass pieces.  I mainly work small, most of the pieces I make are under 20 inches.  My artistic intent is always evolving, but I am consistent in my interest in color, line, texture, shape, form and light.  I try to combine art with objects blurring the line between utilitarianism, decoration and art for art's sake.  I hope my end product spreads light and color into the lives of others.