One of Canada's premiere glass artists, Mel Munsen likens his work to a highly patterned plane reluctantly coaxed into often complex and delicate vessel forms. Mel Munsen was born in San Diego in 1946. He received his Bachelor of Science in graphic design from Portland State in 1969 followed by 6 months of graduate work in glassblowing. He immigrated to Canada in 1970 where his career in glass began in glass blowing.
An admiration and curiosity about the work of Italy's mid-20th century glass artists Carlo Scarpa and Alfredo Barbini has led to Mel Munsen's technically groundbreaking and innovative glass work. Munsen arrived at his current fusing and murrini techniques through a fascination with the production Italian glass maker Venini's designs.
He has the ability to produce incredible detail with maintaining a fine tuned balance of proportion and symmetry.
Mel uses both murrini and fused cane for the majority of the detail in his designs, bringing his designs look very similar to a Murano glass object.
Mel Munsen's work is unmatched in his perfection of the technical aspects of fused and slumped glass.
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