Farmers Market Report written by Moncton area writer, Heather Ferguson, covers the farm, hobbyist, and artisan producers who display their products and artistry at Moncton's Farmers Market Cooperative and Downtown Moncton's Marche Moncton Market each week. "Market Report" blog also covers small independent speciality businesses in southern New Brunswick. To suggest a business or artisan for a profile, please use the comment form on this blog. See you at the Market.
About The Farmers Market Report
Sunday, January 13, 2008
A Touch of Glass
Shawnessey’s Touch of Glass at the Marché Moncton Market truly exudes a “touch of class” to innovations in mood lighting. Unique lamp designs are artfully created using bottles of various hues and sizes, with each set in novel bases such as baskets, metal holders, ceramic dishes, or other everyday household items reincarnated into a new and useful art form. Not only do these unusual lamps offer a decorative flair to any room but they are a wonderful blend of form and function. Each is a work of art in its own right! Using frosting techniques as a finish, and embellished with seaglass gems strung on twisted wire, Shawnessey’s lamps utilize low energy light bulbs that emit a muted glow perfect for just the right mood lighting.
Artist and creator Shawnessey Gallagher hails from Rexton, NB, and comes to this lucrative art form quite by chance. Noticing how lovely backlighting through empty bottles casts a wonderful warm glow to any room, he experimented with recreating his vision by cutting the base out of empty bottles and setting them over light bulbs connected to a base with a plug-in cord. In an ingenious variation on this theme, Shawnessey has created a touch button cordless lamp with a hidden on/off switch just perfect for a tabletop centrepiece. First created as a gift for a friend, soon demand for his one-of-a-kind lamps among his many family members and friends gave him the impetus to bring his practical art to the public. The farmers market has been the perfect forum for Shawnessey’s creations and he has had much success in this endeavour. An engineer by education with the soul of an artist, Shawnessey’s lamps are the product of imagination and practical knowledge and one destined to be the centrepiece for any room they occupy. With a keen mind that is always ticking, Shawnessey has added a range of gift items to his inventory of lamps that now includes new and exciting seaglass sun catchers and flowers. They are the perfect gift items for that hard-to-buy-for individual who has everything.
For more information or to order via email or phone, contact Shawnessey at (506) 523-9043, shawnessey.gallagher@gmail.com, or visit the market on Saturdays where you will find the artist himself surrounded by his fascinating lighted glass works!
Artist and creator Shawnessey Gallagher hails from Rexton, NB, and comes to this lucrative art form quite by chance. Noticing how lovely backlighting through empty bottles casts a wonderful warm glow to any room, he experimented with recreating his vision by cutting the base out of empty bottles and setting them over light bulbs connected to a base with a plug-in cord. In an ingenious variation on this theme, Shawnessey has created a touch button cordless lamp with a hidden on/off switch just perfect for a tabletop centrepiece. First created as a gift for a friend, soon demand for his one-of-a-kind lamps among his many family members and friends gave him the impetus to bring his practical art to the public. The farmers market has been the perfect forum for Shawnessey’s creations and he has had much success in this endeavour. An engineer by education with the soul of an artist, Shawnessey’s lamps are the product of imagination and practical knowledge and one destined to be the centrepiece for any room they occupy. With a keen mind that is always ticking, Shawnessey has added a range of gift items to his inventory of lamps that now includes new and exciting seaglass sun catchers and flowers. They are the perfect gift items for that hard-to-buy-for individual who has everything.
For more information or to order via email or phone, contact Shawnessey at (506) 523-9043, shawnessey.gallagher@gmail.com, or visit the market on Saturdays where you will find the artist himself surrounded by his fascinating lighted glass works!posted by Heather Ferguson at 2:09 PM 
Advertisement |
||
|
|
|
|
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home