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Show - M Wr It jl S S'S' I . x , .!... f,"-' - "- k x I v ' - i ' r . , vyrr" : v f 5 ;l 4 : Jf LYNN SESSIONS is a Vernal born resident professional in the art of stained glass and proficient in the trade of making gass terrariums equipped with the terrarmm miniature gardens. The hanging stained glass lamp pictured here is the Tiffany designed art piece for which he won third place hobbyist award in the 1980 Salt Lake Consortium Art Show. Lynn Sessions to display stained glass art in SLC Lynn Sessions won the 1980, Salt Lake Art Consortium, third place hobbyist award for a stained glass Tiffany art designed hanging lamp. Lynn has been doing professional quality stained glass in a vocation capacity for a year and a half. In the past year he has been constructing con-structing glass terrariums equipped with their own miniature gardens also planted by Lynn. He has also displayed his works of art in local craft fairs and on commission in a local floral shop and contracts to individuals. Glass is purchased in bulk for Lynn's art work, the stained glass being five times more expensive to purchase as opposed to the terrarium glass.. which he obtains locally. Lynn uses the Tiffany Tif-fany foil method of welding the glass pieces together. Lynn states, "I use this method because it is durable. To hold up glass and dirt from a terrarium takes a lot of strength, or to cascade a cone shaped lamp requires the product to be strong to hold the pressure and weight. The Tiffany method is nearly indestructable for holding the glass together." Lynn demonstrated this by picking up a 20 pound terrarium from the decorative cut holes at the top of the small glass greenhouse. Interest to make stained glass sparked spark-ed within Lynn's head after viewing a Johnny Carson show. On the program it was announced which products to invest in-vest in and stained glass was an item which was listed as a good investment. He and his wife, Nancy, then took an investigative in-vestigative look at some stained glass in Salt Lake City. Lynn remembers, "after looking at the stained git ducts in Salt Lake City I said, '1 ,i can do that', so I did." His terraric terest was an interest only until bi bought him a book on terrariums ; to Salt Lake City bought the rtc. soldering products to begin coe ting the glass plant houses. Lynn; his terrariums before selling unless otherwise specified by the: . Lynn remarks, "Nancy is my pi; critic. After looking at them for s it's good to have 'an outside eye k arrange the plants in an apje manner " he continued, "tern-have "tern-have . become quite a fad lately, plants car jgrow qnlyas far as& t of the glass they are in; in custorr: ing terrariums I can get awaytrt: bottle look and expand to a var-: shapes." One of the drawbacks to the; designing in glass work istheaci: in the soldering and the sharp e. both, cause cuts and nicks on . hands continually. j Lynn was born in Vernal, OcIoh 1954. He is a 1972 Uintah High Si graduate and has completed I years of Computer Science at BrJ J Young University. He married ii j March 1, 1979. Nancy and Lynn i one son, Cory, who is one yearot 1 Presently Lynn is preparing I: year's Salt Lake Art Consortia to be held in mid February at Barn on the University of Utah e for a two week running. Lynn'-continue Lynn'-continue to present his art in to shows and craft fairs in 1981. to |