This contemporary glass wall sculpture is inspired by nature.

Ascend:Forest

More Works By Cheryl Wilson Smith Glass 2025
25 × 20 × 3 in 63.5 × 50.8 × 7.62 cm
$6,000
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About Ascend:Forest

This contemporary glass wall sculpture is inspired by nature.

Cheryl Wilson Smith’s ethereal glass work reflects her deep connection to the land that surrounds her Northern Ontario home and studio. Living on the edge of the boreal forest, where she walks almost daily, Wilson Smith’s delicately detailed glass work is informed in shape and colour by the beauty of that natural world. Her aesthetic is unique—layer upon layer of fine ground glass (frit) appears to recreate organic form and texture. Ascend is one of a series that has seven vertical pieces of varying lengths in a rich rust, gray palette that together create a dynamic pattern.

“Ascend reminds me of an abstracted forest, but the trees always make me look up in wonder; they allow me to feel grounded while uplifting my soul.” Cheryl Wilson Smith

Cheryl Wilson Smith was the 2014 winner of the RBC Award for Glass through the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Wilson-Smith has received nine grants from the Ontario Arts Council and one from the Canada Council. Commissions include the Red Lake District Heritage Centre, Margaret Cochenor Memorial Hospital Donor wall. Her work has been exhibited widely across Canada, in the UK and the US.
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