Glass Transformations

Name: Glass Transformations
Address: 23 Steele Hill Rd, Sanbornton, NH, 03269, US
Telephone: +16035486754

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Glass Transformations by Melissa is where you can follow my ongoing creations in fused glass...inspired by the nature found in NH Lakes Region

My name is Melissa Antul and Glass Transformations is the place where I indulge my inner need for beauty in my life by creating affordable luxury and strikingly unique pieces for your home, your body and as gifts to share your unique taste with others. Glass has always fascinated me. As a retired psychologist, I have always been intrigued by what lies beneath the surface and how what you initially

experience can be transformed into something even more beautiful and unanticipated. Fused glass has become my favorite medium for creating and I now spend most of my time as a NH Made Fused Glass artist and glass addict! I am always amazed at how the materials I use can be beautiful in and of themselves, and then I can still help transform these separate entities into striking and unique new combinations. The glass has a mind of it's own. Like a person, I can encourage it to become what I envision, but the final result is always something unique to itself. I want to share this beauty with others. Each piece of glass has it's own personality that blossoms when melted in my 1200-1500 degree kilns. I create each unique fused glass piece in my home in Sanbornton New Hamphsire. Large sheets of glass - clear, opaque, iridized or dichroic are scored, cut and sometimes ground to achieve the desired shapes. Pieces are cleaned, stacked together and fired in one of my kilns at temperatures that get up to 1200 to 1500 degrees, at least once and as much as 5 times, depending on the results needed. As a resident of the NH Lakes Region, it's easy for me to look to the nature around me for inspiration from NH birches to glow-in-the-dark galaxies. Each piece of glass is a one-of-a-kind signed work of art created to reflect your uniqueness and enhance your life

06/21/2025

King of the Birch will be coming to Squam Lakes Artisans Gallery tomorrow, Sunday 6/21/25. Come check out the finished hanging among the other gorgeous art you can find at the Gallery!

06/17/2025

WIP It started with a thrift store frame, and now it's in for its first firing in-between 2 kiln shelves! We'll see how it goes?!

06/10/2025

Such a great place to buy cards! So many choices.

06/07/2025

Just a quick video of some of the gorgeous items at Squam Lakes Artisans Gallery. See if you can spot a spring fused glass egg!

06/01/2025

Artistic Roots is an amazing place. So many interesting and beautiful items in one place.

"New Hampshire Birches," a mini hanging glass landscape by Melissa Antul, fused glass artist. Fantastic for hanging in a window, echoing the beautiful scenery we have here in New Hampshire! About 4" high. Melissa also creates trinket dishes, night lights, and tabletop fused glass pieces - stop in to Artistic Roots in downtown Plymouth to see her work. The gallery is open daily, 10 to 5.

05/10/2025

Just realized that I never posted a completed photo of "Cascading Mountains, View from the Lake" with its stand. I epoxied on a hanger and bumper to make the piece wall mountable as well.

05/07/2025

I think this is my favorite part! After I make all the individual components, I have such a fun time putting them all together into tiny works of art. Can't wait to open the kiln!

05/03/2025

New glass beauties at Squam Lakes Artisans Gallery in Center Harbor, NH. It's hard to capture the sparkle of the iridized glass on the double layer etched dichroic panel, but you get the idea. Time for a spring drive to see all the beautiful artwork here at the Gallery. 3 brand new artists to check out, as well!

04/28/2025

Thinking Spring and waiting for the hummingbirds to arrive.

03/17/2025

That dragonfly just sold...I'll have to do another!

Our artists do a wonderful job representing animals in their art. Which one speaks to you? Loon etching, Gary LaRose, Fused glass dragonfly, Melissa Antul, Carved rooster, Barbara McAlister.

02/16/2025

All better!! This poor panel shattered into 5+ pieces back in November. I glued it, put it on thin clear glass, added more wafers and frits, added some enamel details, topped with a good sprinkling of clear powder, and fired slowly for over 3 days. I just added another mounting piece, and Voila, she's complete. I think I like the repair better than the original!?! -fuse

02/06/2025

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23 Steele Hill Rd
Sanbornton, NH
03269

Telephone

+16035486754

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https://www.etsy.com/shop/glasstransformations?ref=hdr_shop_menu

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My name is Melissa Antul and Glass Transformations is where I share combine my loves of glass, nature and creation by designing affordable luxury and strikingly unique pieces for your home and your body or as gifts to share your unique taste with others.

I don’t recall a time in my life when I wasn’t creating. My mother was an oil painter and ceramic artist. Growing up, we were always making something new and different, often for school and church bazaars. This has continued throughout my life, and I feel a drive to share my joy in creating with others. I have always worked with children and as an adult, I brought this creative instinct into both my life and work. Over the years, I have used art and craft as a means to engage children to help them learn about and feel good about themselves and as a way to help them engage effectively with others. This eventually resulted in my becoming a school psychologist where I spent years running therapeutic groups in public schools using arts and crafts as a focal activity.

I happened upon glass as a medium when sharing a class alongside my then adolescent daughter at the Currier Art School in Manchester, NH. The first of many classes that I took was run by Judith Copeland, League of NH juried glass artist, and as they say, “the rest is history”.

As a now retired psychologist, I find working with glass to be much like working with people. I am a guide to help transform the glass into something beautiful and unique that I imagine, but the glass has the final say in what it becomes. I am inspired by the innate beauty in the world around me and glass is my partner in helping portray my vision. Being a resident of NH for the majority of my life, I find no end to the seasonal beauty and variety around me, from the white birches and purple lupines of spring mountains, to the intense blaze of fall color or the clear glowing night sky. Since I am also a child of the 60’s, I often incorporate a little psychedelic fun by adding glow-in-the-dark frit/powdered glass to my designs.