STEPHANIE TRENCHARD

CAST GLASS

Stephanie Trenchard enlists collective imagery to tell narratives and biographies in her cast glass sculptures and oil paintings, most often focusing on women artists.  She is especially interested in how motherhood and partnership has effected their careers, and has created her own language of imagery and symbols that become totems, reappearing in many of her pieces.

Trenchard's process is to sculpt and paint objects in glass that tell illusory narratives. The sculpted pieces are encased in sand cast glass forms. The cast pieces are assembled in different sections, often stacked or nestled together and, on occasion, can be reconfigured. A successful work speaks to the viewer as if in an intimate conversation.