Rike Scholle still remembers the moment her passion for glasswork was sparked. “It was in 1997 when visiting a Dale Chihuly exhibition at the Suntory Museum in Tokyo,” she says. References to the work of the famous American glass sculptor can still be detected in her work, however Rike has developed her very own unique expression. “I am constantly coming up with new shapes and trying to find new ways of incorporating them into my work,” she says. By assembling individual parts she creates a final object that is "like a 3D puzzle in my head”. However, it is not only the aesthetic quality that distinguishes her work but her ability to work at the furnace without support, so-called 'solo-blowing'.
Rike Scholle
