For Lino, glassblowing is meditative. He follows his intuition and instincts in the hot shop, allowing his creativity to flow in all directions. The Poesia are particularly hypnotic: the intricate canes swirl together and invite the viewer to experience the same meditative qualities that Lino experiences while making the pieces.

Having grown up on the canals, Lino took inspiration for theEndeavor and Ala series from the boats and birds that fill Murano's landscape. The designs themselves, graceful and simple curves of glass, developed from Lino’s admiration for Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, a series of Italian comics that chronicle the adventures of a sailor. In these illustrations, birds and boats are depicted in a pared-down style, which Lino admired and sought to recreate in glass.

Lino named his Contarini series for one of Venice’s most famous and historical families. Like its namesake, the Palazzo Contarini, Lino’s artworks feature “windows” which offer viewers a glimpse of the opposite side of the vessel and which add depth and dimension to the works.

This piece was created using multiple layers of canes that got stretched and twisted to achieve this effect. For this artwork, Lino drew inspiration from nature, particularly from dry autumn leaves. Using a technique similar to Pilchuck ’96, he brought this dynamic effect to life.

In this artwork, the technique used is the same as Reticello, but with a unique feature that gives it this distinctive effect. In this piece, the overlapping of non-relief canes results in the absence of the creation of bubbles.

Lino uses the Ebro to feature a very specific typeof murrine. The small glass pieces have a layer of white sandwiched between darker hues. Lino felt that this would create an understated but deep pattern. The Ebro are blown into simple shapes to keep the emphasis on the pattern of the colored glass.

In this Fused panel,  Lino combined glass frit and then inserted a solid glass colored bar.