• Michaela is a glass engraver who only works on one object at a time
• Intuition and emotion guide her creative process
• Her atelier combines creation, exhibition and education

Michaela Swade found herself practising glass engraving when she was initially looking for a path into calligraphy. Her glass engraving training at the glass school Zwiesel in Lower Bavaria offered only minimal focus on lettering, but it introduced her to a material that immediately felt right to her. Michaela trained for nearly a decade, becoming skilled in engraving, design, and glass refinement. Today, she creates each work as a standalone exploration, one piece at a time. "I am guided by an inner theme. I move slowly through the sculptural processes of cutting deeply, breaking where needed and allowing the glass to reveal new meaning," Michaela says. In 2014, she opened her studio which became not only a site of personal creation, but also one of shared discovery, where others are welcomed into her world through workshops and exhibitions.