ArtHouse Nisaki
Curriculum Vitae
Heike Antkowiak ~ Fine Arts
- GR-49083 Corfu-Nisaki-Vinglatouri
- Phone: +30 698 0364 804
- Email: art@blue-interieur.com
- Instagram: antkowiakheike
Vita
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Born 1961 in Schleswig-Holstein (North-Germany)
- 1985 degree in business administration
- 1993 – 2022 Freelance business consultant
- 2016 – 2019 various trainings with international glass artists in the glass fusing technique
- 2020 – 2023 studies of fine arts in the private art academy Faber Castell in Stein (Germany)
- 2024 ‘FAZIT’-Exhibition – finals of the art academy studies
Group exhibitions
- 2020 International glass art exhibition in Zwiesel - Germany
- 2021 International glass art exhibition in Zwiesel – Germany
- 2024 FAZIT – final exhibition of students of fine arts, private art academy Faber-Castell
Glass Art
The technique I use for glass art is called Glass Fusing (warm glass), which is the joining of glass at high temperatures (around 800 ° Celsius for full fuse) in a kiln. Various parameters in physics and chemistry have to be considered, and the main factor of a successful fusing is the firing schedule. It has several phases and determines, at which pace the kiln is heated to which degree and how long the temperature is held at that temperature.
Further on if wished the piece can be treated by cold works like grinding, drilling, sandblasting, sawing.
The raw glass (sheet glass) I use is handmade by a company in Portland, OR, USA. Air bubbles in the glass are characteristic for the glass fusing technique. All my products I design and create myself. They are unique pieces and created in elaborate manual work.
Please clean the glass carefully with a glass cleaner, do not put it into a dishwasher!
Other art works
Besides warm glass work in all its facets I do paintings (various media like oil, acrylics, gouache, water color), mostly abstract/spiritual works, as well as outdoor garden arts, sculptures in various forms and materials.