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Resin,
poured once

One small studio in Savannah, Georgia. How a portrait is layered, poured and sealed, and where to hold one in person.

The Glazera bench: a golden retriever panel mid-pour, a gloved hand tipping clear resin over it, cups of teal, pearl and gold pigment, a dish of gold leaf, a heat torch and a level around it
A woman lifting a chocolate labrador portrait on shimmering teal resin out of its tissue-lined box at her table, the labrador beside her looking up at it

The material

Poured by hand,
not printed

Resin goes on as a liquid and cures glass-hard. We tint it with pigment, pearl and glitter and build the portrait up in fine layers, so the colour sits inside the piece rather than on top of it. Then one clear flood seals the lot, and that is where the gloss comes from.

The wood slices are real tree rounds, sanded to the grain with the bark left on, painted by hand and poured over the same way.

On the bench

Mix, layer,
pour, polish

Mix

Pigment, pearl and glitter are stirred into the resin by the cup, to the colours of the design.

Layer

The portrait is built up in fine layers, or painted onto the wood, and the eyes get the most time.

Pour

One clear flood over the whole face, torched to lift the bubbles, then left to cure.

Polish

Edges sanded and polished, the hanger, chain or easel fitted, then packed in crinkle paper.

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Shipping, returns
and care

Shipping

Poured and packed in our Savannah studio, boxed in crinkle paper and tracked end to end. Ornaments reach most addresses in two and a half to four weeks; panels and wood slices in about five. The estimate for yours is shown before you pay.

Before you buy

Made for one person, so it is not returnable. Ask us anything before you buy and we will answer properly, usually the same day. The approved design is what we pour.

Hanging & care

Panels hang on a single screw, ornaments on their chain, and wood slices stand on their easel. Dust with a soft dry cloth; no glass cleaner or solvents. Keep it out of hours of strong direct sun, which yellows any resin in time.

Come and hold one

Where to find us
in person

Photographs never get the gloss right. A few times a year we load the van and take the range somewhere you can pick a piece up and tilt it to the light.

The Glazera stall under a white canopy at a Saturday farmers market in a Savannah park, live oaks hung with Spanish moss overhead, resin pet panels on a slatted wall, ornaments on a branch stand and wood-slice portraits on easels along the table
Savannah

Home. The farmers market under the oaks, most Saturdays.

The Glazera stall in a long brick market hall with arched openings in Charleston, a shopper holding a resin ornament up to the light, pet panels on a pegboard wall and wood-slice portraits on easels below
Charleston

The old market hall downtown, a few weekends each spring.

The Glazera stall at an evening makers market in a converted brick mill in Atlanta, string lights overhead, glitter panels on a pegboard wall, ornaments on a branch stand and wood slices on little easels along the table
Atlanta

An evening makers market in an old mill, every November.

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