Video: Fairy tale world: Neilie Cooper's fantastic glass house
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Neilie Cooper - American artist and for more than two decades, the jeweler, inspired by nature itself, has been creating amazing works of art from glass: from large-scale stained glass windows to miniature jewelry with real butterfly wings. Having developed her own unique stained glass style, the artist became famous thanks to the ambitious work of "Glass Cabin" - glass hut.
An amazing stained-glass home, Neilie Cooper created on her plot of land amidst a fairytale forest near Lake Mohawk, New Jersey in the northeastern United States. It has become a small “refuge” for the artist, who looks at the outside world through the walls of her creation, as if through colored lenses.
It is a spectacular stained-glass hut, composed of rafters made from fallen trees, old wooden window frames and glass painted in many vivid images from its base to the top of the roof.
Drawing inspiration from the environment, Neilie used natural motives in her project: leaves, flowers, snails and mushrooms, ornate curling along the glass walls, and fluttering butterflies and birds complemented this magical composition.
A breathtaking view, painted transparent walls against the background of age-old trees, looks very impressive and fabulous at any time of the year. The interior of the hut is modest, the dimensions are quite small - 2, 5 x 3, 6 meters around the perimeter, but from this the house does not lose its scale and artistic values.
The artist skillfully used for her creation the colorful world of stained glass, which has a long history. This technique has always attracted artists from different eras with the play of light and shadow, colored light effects that are constantly changing throughout the day and throughout the year.
And in the evenings, the house is illuminated from the inside by a multitude of electric bulbs, creating a multi-colored fairy-tale world around itself. Thus, the artist's creation lives a unique life from dawn to dusk, filling its creator with inspiration for new artistic discoveries.
This unique project of an American artist has something in common with her idea, previously created, fabulous house in Copenhagen, an artist from New York.
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