• Rony grew up in the heartland of glass, North Bohemia
• He looks for cosmic and surreal things
• Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture inspire him

Rony Plesl is an accomplished glass sculptor and university professor. He was always fascinated by the geometry and intimacy of the Italian Renaissance, and the architectural opulence of the Baroque period. At the start of his career, he spent four years in Venice, where he learned from Italian master glassmakers. To this day Rony considers this period of his life truly essential to his life's work. He now works with a ground-breaking glassmaking technology called Vitrum Vivum, invented by Czech glass master Jiří Šín. This revolutionary process allows for the creation of full scale, three-dimensional, hyperrealistic glass sculptures, and so Rony fulfils his true ambition of modelling his works by hand with great precision and detail.