ARTIST

Glass artist Mark Eckstrand recreates the undersea world in his hand-blown glass sculptures.  His vases resemble an aquarium complete with the ocean floor, plants, coral, mollusks, anemones and fish.  The deep, rich colors of the undersea world are captured in these magnificent pieces of art. 

Even as a child, Eckstrand was enamored of fish and spent hours watching his home aquarium.  The beauty of the undersea world is also a lesson in survival -- they eat each other; all of his fish have teeth.

Eckstrand uses fused imagery in combination with hand-blown vessels to create a style that is uniquely his own.  His background in drawing and painting and his love of glass blowing led him to the concept of these labor-intensive, aesthetically beautiful vases. platters and sea-ball paperweights.