Glass Transformations

Glass Transformations 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

03/15/2026

Here's a closer look at that kiln load. It took some experimenting, and now I'm quite pleased with how my tiny hand-painted birches with leaf lace and bird murrini turned out! As always, the iridescent-winged dragonfly sparkles.

03/13/2026

Early morning kiln opening. I experimented with my tiny hand-painted birch branches, leaf-lace and bird murrini in my hearts! Love, but I also think I may try light sky blue next time-thoughts?

03/07/2026

Playing goddess! Creating trees, branches and greenery for future use. A Zen and necessary way to spend a cold winter day!

03/04/2026

Larger pressed glass landscapes completed. I'm pretty happy with these! Coming next Friday the 13th (my lucky day) to both Squam Lakes Artisans Gallery in Center Harbor and Artistic Roots in Plymouth, NH. .lakes.artisans

03/02/2026

"Low-lying Clouds" finally mounted with pounded copper on a burnt cedar plank after input from other Facebook glass artists.

02/25/2026

How I play. Creating glass landscapes.

02/24/2026

Painting with glass on this gorgeous, windy, cold day. Using my pre-made components-tiny hand-painted birches, etc. Now the fun begins!!

02/12/2026

Details added to that press-fired background that I decided not to cut up...Loving it! Originally, I thought a lit stand would work, but it doesn't look good. So I may make a stand out of a birch-branch, not sure yet. Ideas?

02/08/2026

Starting on my spring birch meadows and flowering picket fences. Press-fired landscape is ready to go.

02/01/2026

Here's the pressed landscape piece I posted earlier. I love how it came out...so much so that I may not cut it in 3 as planned.

01/30/2026

Setting up for a press-fired background using transparent colors.

01/27/2026

Second firing on the landscape on brown streaky glass. I tack fused on some tiny details for more depth. Now to decide how to display it. I was thinking of just a subtle bend, or I might leave flat a make a glass stand to glue it on. Suggestions? .lakes.artisans

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Sanbornton, NH
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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.