Terrapin Glassblowing Studio in Jaffrey is featuring both a Maker and an Artist of the Month this August.
Bette Chase is the Maker of the Month for August. Chase lives in Brookline with her husband Ron. She taught second grade for 40 years, retiring in 2012. While teaching she began knotting beads to make necklaces. Chase began dreaming about selling her art at craft fairs, maybe a couple of fairs a month. Around that time her daughter suggested taking a glassblowing class so they took a class along with Ron at Terrapin Glassblowing Studio. Ron and Bette continued taking classes working on their Hot Shop skills. Ron’s glassblowing career ended when he got into flying airplanes and got his pilot license. Bette ended up setting up a torch station at home to make beads for her custom jewelry. Her flameworking skills increased incrementally once she began taking lessons from Jocelyn Brown at Terrapin. Now Chase works in both the Hot Shop and the Flame Shop making flowers, bobbles, paperweights, suncatchers and jewelry to sell at craft fairs in and around New Hampshire.
Chase’s art will be for sale at Terrapin Glassblowing Studio during the month of August.
Haley Easton is the Featured Artist of the Month for August. Easton is a 26-year-old fourth-generation Peterborough native, who just returned from a transformative trip abroad, visiting six countries in Europe, and the UK with her watercolor set. She began her most recent series of goddess paintings whilst immersing herself in Italian Renaissance artwork, exploring ruins in the Scottish Highlands and working in a Buddhist art studio in England.
Easton attended the New Hampshire Institute of Art where she studied ceramics and art education for two years before transferring and finishing her degree in studio art at Keene State College. Easton has had her work on display at the Sharon Arts Gallery, Launch Art, Thorne Sagendorph, Carroll House, and Castle in the Clouds. She is also a member of Raw Natural Born Artist in the greater Boston area. Easton received the ConVal class of 2011 Emerging Artist Award, and a Silver Scholastic key in Ceramic Sculpture in 2010.
You can view her artwork at www.haleyeastonart.com or follow her on Instagram
@haley.forgetmeknot.
Terrapin is located just off the intersection of Route 202 and Old Sharon Road in Jaffrey. For more, call (603) 593-5073, visit www.TerrapinGlass.com, or find them on Facebook.