—  hayden macrea  —

“There’s always a second chance with glass”

That statement sums up my passion for working with glass. It’s a passion that emerged when I was a young boy. I experimented with putting pieces of glass in my family’s fire pit. It was always a surprise the next morning to see what emerged from the ashes.

The combination of elements—heat, glass and oxygen—attracts me today. It’s an organic way of working. A piece is always changing and what might appear at first as a mistake morphs into something else. Glass has a life of its own. I add my skill, my vision—blowing life into a piece.

Hayden's formal education in glassblowing started at age 13 when he began attending workshops and lessons at Firebrand Glass, under the leadership of Julia Reimer and Tyler Rock. For the past few years, he has been studying under Barry Fairbairn at Double-Struggle Glass Studio. He continues to learn the discipline and craftsmanship of glass, creating pieces for purpose, for beauty.