Gemstone Nebula Bowls are a unique collaboration of clay, glass and natural gemstones. Artist Norbie Schmidlin hand tools each piece on the potter’s wheel and then fires them to an extreme temperature. This fuses natural earth oxides, minerals, gemstones and silica together which creates the beautiful nebula effect.
Norbie explains, “I had been working with clay for more than a decade when I became interested in the amazing qualities of glass. I became imagining how clay and glass could collaborate together in a beautiful way.
My desire was realized when I saw the first gemstone nebula after a year of experimentation.”
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