Richard creates incredibly lifelike jellyfish sculptures out of glass.

He utilizes numerous advanced and very technical old-world techniques in order to create his works of art.

They are so realistic that people often wonder if they’re looking at a real jellyfish preserved in glass !

Glass-in-glass is a centuries-old art form that consists of a glass sculpture inside a second glass layer, oftentimes called a shroud. The inner glass sculpture is formed first and then it is dipped into molten glass, encasing it in a solid outer glass shroud. Before it cools, the shroud is malleable so the artist can manipulate it into any shape he so desires.

Richard describes his sculptures as vertically orientated, colorful, fanciful jellyfish with tendril-like tentacles and a rounded bell encased in an outer layer of rounded clear glass that is bulbous at the top and tapering toward the bottom to form roughly a bullet shape, with the jellyfish portion of the sculpture filling almost the entire volume of the outer, clear-glass shroud.