Evelyn Wolff is an artist, psychotherapist and medical doctor, practising Integrative Medicine. As the designer of Wolff’s Glass Luminations, she combines a finely tuned colour sensibility, with an apprenticeship in the European tradition of stained glass. Her flair for innovative design and engineering stretch the limits of this crystalline medium.

Evelyn’s most joyful childhood memories include making mosaics using colourful rubber tiles. Later she studied acrylic painting with Francis Pond, in Sault Ste. Marie. On finding herself struggling to create the effect of “lighted glass” in her paintings, she travelled Europe to see its best stained glass windows, and moved to Toronto to complete an apprenticeship with Robert Jeckyll 1976-1977. Then she pursued independent studies at Sheridan College and Ontario College of Art, learning three dimensional design, glass painting, low relief glass casting, and silk-screening with Shirley Fineblit, and further painting techniques with Allan Stein.

Evelyn loves to design unique, intricate jewel-like personal pieces attuned to the client but is also comfortable designing architectural concepts for residential, commercial-corporate, or ecclesiastical contexts. She uses lustrous hand-blown glass imported from Europe, as well as the most expressive glass the U.S.A. has to offer. She has it assembled using the time consuming but visually rewarding copper-foil technique.

The radiance of the resultant art form, both intense and sublime is the fruit of Evelyn’s continuing dedication to life. The focus of her explorations in using glass to reflect the soul’s joyous dance of light and colour, transform it into healing medium.

Memberships: Artists in Stained Glass, the Ontario Craft Council, and the Arts Council of Muskoka.

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