We love Aro's beautiful paperweights.With two galleries on the water we are always looking for unique water orientated glass items.This sure fits the bill.

This is her biography:

Aro Schulze began working with glass in 1989 and fusing hand-blown roundels, cane and murrini into one-of-a-kind jewelry. She sold her work on the West Coast as "Glass Reunion".

In 1991 Aro and her husband, Dutch Schulze, built Vitra Blown Glass Studio on Oregon's south coast, giving her the opportunity to work with hot glass. Since that time Aro has been creating a limited number of unique paperweights in her Coral Reef and Shining Sea series.

As she explores the beaches near her coastal home, Aro delights in the watery vignettes she encounters in her wanderings.

Aspiring to recreate and embellish, in glass, the amazing life forms hidden in the miniscule worlds of the tidepools secluded among the beach rocks, each paperweight she creates carries with it the energy of life at the edge of the Pacific.

The color combinations that she uses in creating the paperweight interiors draw on her background in watercolor. She finds that working with the transparant and opaque colors available to the glass artist has similarities with the mixing and layering of colors done by an artist working in watercolor or gouache.

Furnace glass in its fluid form, as 1200+ degrees F, is a perfect medium for replicating the watery world of sea anemones, jellyfish, and creatures-of-the-imagination. Reinventing these creatures in glass allows her to play with bold color combinations and the infinite variety of the Italian murrini form.

Aro's work is shown in fine galleries around the country.