(4) Signed American Studio Art Glass Vases.
(2) Signed American Studio Art Glass Vases. The larger piece is pink with iridescent green lines throughout it, and is signed and dated 1994 by John Lotton. The smaller piece is mostly green with pink swirls of color through it, signed, numbered, and dated '97 by Dutch Schulze. Size: (largest) 14 x 7 x 7 in.
(2) Signed American Studio Art Glass Vases. The taller piece is more traditionally shaped, pink with green iridescent lines across it, and signed and dated 1994 by John Lotton on the bottom edge. The other is more abstractly shaped with a rainbow of colors throughout it, signed and dated 1991 by John Fitzpatrick of Touch of Light Glass Studio. Size: (largest) 12 x 7 x 7 in.
Born in Illinois in 1964, John Lotton began his glassblowing career at a young age. Starting as his father Charles Lotton’s apprentice, he helped work the kiln the patriarch built in their backyard, and would polish his father’s pieces by day and then create his own work at night. Lotton honed his craft with small paperweights and pendants, which sold quickly in his father’s shop and gave Lotton the confidence to begin working on a grander scale. Lotton has devoted his life to perfecting his skills, and became one of the primary artists at Lotton Art Glass Gallery & Studios in the early 2000s. He continues to hand-blow and meticulously color each of his glass pieces, which gives each piece an outstanding uniqueness, and his work is highly sought-after and can be found in galleries and private collections across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Dutch Schulze was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri. While traveling through Europe after high school he became fascinated by classical art and studied Art History at Wagner College in Bregenz, Austria, learning how to work with clay and wood carving. He returned to Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor’s in English and Literature in 1968, spending the next eight years exploring the world and expanding his artistic interests. In 1975 he returned to the United States and settled in Oregon, where he began casting sculptures in glass for various studios on the West Coast for over a decade. He finally established his own facility, Bandon Glass Studio and Gallery, in 1990, where he has been creating large-scale blown glass vessels with a dedicated kiln ever since.
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