Leslie W. Friedman

            Leslie Friedman's passion for abstract expressionistic glasswork is rooted in over 35 years of design and graphics experimentation in a wide variety of arts media.  A graduate of Texas Tech University with a Bachelor's in Design, Leslie has spent a lifetime honing her artistic talents in painting, graphic design, interior design, mixed media, and a full-range of clay and pottery work, including free-form Raku figures, before turning her attention fulltime to glasswork. 

The resulting stained glass and fused-glass works of which she creates at her home studio in Mansfield, Texas, represent a distillation and refinement of her many years experience in divergent art forms.  Leslie's recent work evokes a lifelong ambition to create artwork that synthesizes immediacy and substance with evocativeness and meaning, while retaining a lively and playful insouciance and an overarching feeling of "fun" in her pieces.