Inspired by his visit to Australia and the aboriginal paintings he saw there, Lino created the Kookaburra series. These vessels feature vibrant and intricate patterns similar to the aboriginal style, and play with balance as the forms often perch atop a small base.

Lino travels to South America in this series and imbues the glass with the sights and sounds of Brazil. The vessels feature organic forms and a colorful patchwork pattern, achieved by incalmo and made even more dimensional through cold-working. 

Artworks like Stromboli feature simpler, more essential forms that provide a striking canvas for Lino Tagliapietra’s masterful use of color and design. In these pieces, the Maestro often explores the interplay of transparency within the murrine, creating dynamic effects that highlight both the exterior surface and the interior of the vessel. This dual visibility allows the viewer to fully appreciate the depth, complexity, and technical brilliance of each work.

For Lino, glassblowing is meditative. He follows his intuition and instincts in the hot shop, allowing his creativity to flow in all direc-tions. 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.

The Osaka vessels have a painterly quality. The simple form allows Lino to explore pattern and texture in the murrine. The banded design recalls traditional Japanese kimono. The horizontal stripes of Lino’s vessels recall the obi that wrap around kimono and secure them in place .

Maestro Tagliapietra has visited Japan a number of times and re-mains fascinated by the culture and landscape of this captivating country. Reflecting on this particular series, Lino comments that his travels in Japan taught him that “simplicity is not easy. It is compli-cated to make a simple design refined.”

Named for Lino’s beloved second home in the Pacific Northwest, this series’ colors recall the stunning sunsets over the Olympic Mountains. The works exhibit a very difficult technique that combines multiple gathers, stamping the vessel in a mold, and folding the glass to achieve the textured colors.

Named for the floral pattern of its murrina, Florencia vesseles are created by layering and folding together differentcolors of flat rib-bon cane in order to create a petal-like structure within the rod of stretched glass. Once sliced into small pieces, the murrine are laid out on a heating stone and grouped tightly together. When laying out the murrine, Lino can assess how the glass pieces will stretch and shape during the blowing process.