Glass In The Fire

One of Kind, Just Like You

Flameworking in Brooklyn

Shalimar

Inspired from House of Guerlain Parfum in Paris, popular during my childhood, provides many beautiful memories.

Waves in Blue

The movement of the ocean offers a rhyme like the turning of the mandrel in making this glass beads. Individual beads are moveable to create a different accessory everytime you wear it.

Moods in The Red Family

Using different shapes, textures and colors in exploring the versatility of the material and its many possibilities.

About the flameworker Artisan

Maria Aroche is an artist and educator at UrbanGlass, who has been dedicated to the art of flameworking since graduating from the Bead Project in 2007. Maria is passionate about the ancient art of glass, and its unique properties. She finds peace and beauty in the meditative process of melting colorful rods of glass over a flame, and transforming this molten material into one of a kind glass beads.