Where did you train as a glassblower?
There was no glassblowing in Iceland. I saw glassblowing for the first time at school in Denmark. It was love at first sight. I was lucky enough, Ejner Sörensen, who had 45 years of experience at Holmegaard Factory, was hired to teach glassblowing.
Do you master any specific techniques?
One of my techniques is rather unknown or unused. It is a pick-up technique, where a picture is pre-made on the marver (metal table) with coloured glass powder. Hot glass is then rolled over it and the picture is ‘picked up’ onto the surface of the piece.
© Sigrún Einarsdóttir
How do you continue to create?
I want to keep making so today I do mostly kiln work. Also, for some years I have been collaborating with a textile artist, Ólöf Einarsdottir, creating work that combines glass and fibers. This has been a really enriching experience.
Is glass making an endangered craft?
In other Nordic countries it is not so bad, there are studios dedicated to glass making. But in Iceland, glassblowing died out when I stopped. I have just started to rent the furnace but the artists come from abroad as no one is trained in this country.