Transforming the simplest of elements into the most creative designs, artist Cheryl Sattler uses her kilns to develop her unique fused-glass designs, creating brilliant eye-catching pieces. As a native Floridian, much of her glasswork reflects the colors and textures of water, marshland, and the tropical plants and flowers that are so familiar throughout the state.
Her work draws from glass traditions, but she has developed her own processes so that her glass that captures not only light but movement. Everything starts with sheets of colored glass, or the same glass crushed to varying degrees – from which she creates an endless variety of spectacularly unique glass, layered like a quilt, until the glass says it’s ready. She has been known to take a hammer to a sheet of freshly made glass, and then re-fire the shards to create gravity defying, crystalline worlds. She experiments constantly – and has never found a rule she didn’t want to break. That’s why her studio is called Imagine That! Glass – because in the imagination, there are no rules.

Sattler has been working in glass for about 12 years. After trying on many other media including drawing, painting, and printmaking, glass found her in 1999. She has studied with many masters in the field: Steve Klein, Bob Leatherbarrow, Kathleen Sheard, Brock Craig, Avery Anderson, Newy Fagan, Doug Randall, Richard LaLonde, Roger Thomas and many more.