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Marine Sculpture Catalogue
 

Welcome to the Catalogue of our Marine Sculptures. Please search through this list of sculptures, and click the image to get more information about that particular piece, including additional images and detailed descriptions of work. All sculptures are one of a kind pieces. For the availability of specific pieces, click here. If you have any questions about pricing, availability, or where you can potentially see the work in person in your area, just feel free to contact us.

 
 

 

Reef Sculptures from 2010

 

  
 

Once Upon a Snorkle: A Glass Art Sculpture Reef Exemplifying the Beauty and the Fragility of the Environment

Once Upon a Snorkel

36 inches tall x 84 inches wide x 24 inches deep

This piece was an installation in Honolulu, at Marks Garage in the Window for Hawaii Craftsmen. It was to be an educational sculpture, teaching people about local marine species here in Hawaii. Below are a few detail shots of this piece, as well as links to detailed information on most of the individual pieces. I hope to post a link to my informational pamphlet here shortly. Unfortunately, many of the individual pieces were destroyed in an accident at the BMAC show.

 

  
 

Detail Work of at Milletseed Butterfly Glass Sculpture

Millet seed Butterfly

This butterfly fish is endemic to Hawaii.

Detail of the Blue Zoanthids on a Glass Reef Sculpture

Blue Zoanthids (detail shot)

These are a type of soft coral that commonly grows around Hawaii.

Close Up of a Four Spot Butterfly Glass Sculpture

Four spot Butterfly

This butterfly is often in schools of fish swimming the reef.

  
 

 

 

Closeup comparison of True Lichen Coral and False Lichen Coral on Glass Sculpture

False Lichen Coral

Here two types of Lichen Coral are competing for space.

 

 

 

  
 

Cuttlefish Dinner Glass Art Sculpture

Cuttlefish Dinner

18 inches tall x 12 inches wide x 8 inches deep

Flame Angel Fish Glass Art Sculpture

Flame Angel

11" tall x 7 1/2 " wide x 61/2" deep

 Four Spotted Butterfly Fish Glass Art Sculpture

Four Spotted Butterfly Pair

  
 

Big Red Hungry Crab Glass Art Sculpture

Hungry Crab

5 inches tall x 9 inches wide x 8 inches deep

Iauwiliwili Milletseed Butterfly Glass Art Sculpture

Iauwiliwili: Millet Seed Butterfly

13" high x 10 ½ " wide x 5 ½" deep

In Momory of Spencer Tinker: Tinkers Butterfly Glass Art Sculpture

In Memory of Spencer Tinker

Made Solo, 9.5 inches tall x 8 inches wide x 6 inches deep

  
  Little Octopus Glass Art Sculpture

Little Octopus

2 inches tall x 7 inches wide x 4 inches deep

 Life at Snail's Pace: Snail Rendevous Glass Art Sculpture

Love at Snail's Pace

12 inches tall x 7inches wide x 5 inches deep

 Little Red Crab Hiding in Reef Glass Art Sculpture

Little Red Crab in Hiding

5 ½ " tall x 7" wide x 6" deep

  
  Coral Delight: Blue Acorapora Glass Art Sculpture

Coral Delight (Blue Acorapora)

9.5 inches tall x 8 inches wide x 8 inches deep

Pufferfish Swimming amongst the coral glass art sculpture

Puffer Fish

 

Reclaiming Life: Life and Death of a Snail Marine Glass Art Sculpture

Reclaiming Life: Life and Death of a Snail

Made Solo

 
  Tang Out of School: Solo Tang Glass Art Sculpture

Tang Out of School

8.5" high x 6" wide x 8" deep

 Teardrop Butterfly Glass Art Sculpture

Teadrop Butterfly

 Tinker and Teardrop Butterfly Glass Art Sculpture

Tinker and Teardrops

  
   

 

Reef Sculptures from 2009

 

   
  Arabian Knights Glass Art Sculpture: An Arabian Butterfly and a n Emperor Fish Guard their Reef

Arabian Knights

25 inches tall x 17 inches wide x 12 inches deep

Caribbean Angel Glass Art Sculpture: A blue and yellow dward angelfish is protected by coral

Caribbean Angel

16 inches tall x 10 inches wide x 10 inches deep

Cleaning Station Glass Art Sculpture: A Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse eats parasites off a yellow Tang

Cleaning Station

22 inches tall x 16 inches wide x 8 inches deep

 
 

Lauwili'wili'nuku'nuku'oi'oi Glass Art Sculpture: A long nose yellow butterflyfish feeds while a nearby blue damsel protects its home.

Lau'wili'wili'nuku'nuku'oi'oi

24 inches tall x 24 inches wide x 12 inches deep

Racoon in Hiding

20 inches tall x 15 inches wide x 8 inches deep

Seahorse Garden Glass Art Sculpture: an orange Seahorse slithers through the reef, ornately decorated with 24 karat gold and glass powder, as well as murrine for the eyes

Seahorse Garden

6 inches tall x 12 inches wide x 6 inches deep

  
   

 

Reef Sculptures from 2008

 

   
  Blue Damsel Fish Protects Its Cave Glass Art Sculpture

Blue Damsel Protects its Cave

21 inches tall x 15 inches wide x 12 inches deep

Butterfly Delight: a delightful, colorful six line butterfly fish dances in the Sargassum

Butterfly Delight

14 inches tall x 15 inches wide x 14 inches deep

Dragon's Lair Glass Art Sculpture: A Moray Eel slithers through a hole in a coral reef

Dragon’s Lair

16 inches tall x 16 inches wide x 10 inches deep

 
 

Hawaii's Outer Coral Reef Glass Art Sculpture: It is mid-day and a school of tangs are foraging the reef

Hawaii’s Outer Reef

20.5 inches tall x 14 inches wide x 12 inches deep

Manini Near Shore Glass Art Sculpture:A pair of Manini, also known as Convict Tang, cruises past the reef amongst the algae and Montipora plating coral

Manini Near Shore

14 inches tall x 10 inches wide x 8 inches deep

Moorish Idol Glass Art Sculpture: a Moorish Idol fish gracefully shadows an octopus, a couple of coral patches, as well as a common tang as it crowns the reef below

Moorish Idol

19 inches tall x 18 inches wide x 13 inches deep

  
  Pillows of Green Zoanthids Glass Art Sculpture: A pillow of clustering green Zoanthids carpets the floor of a blue damsel fish’s home

Pillows of Green Zoanthids

17 inches tall x 14 inches wide x 8 inches deep

Reef Humuhumunukunukuapua’a Glass Art Sculpture: a reef trigger swims alongside a damsel as they pass by a reef of coral and algae

Reef Humuhumunukunukuapua’a

20 inches tall x 15 inches wide x 8 inches deep

Shark Cruise Glass Art Sculpture: a reef shark cruises above the sheltered reef as it searches for its prey below

Shark Cruise

21 inches tall x 13 inches wide x 12 inches deep

 
 

Shelter on the Reef Glass Art Sculpture: Slithering in the grass, a seahorse feasts on the copepods growing on the algae while a Convict Tang feasts over the Zoanthid beds

Shelter on the Reef

12 inches tall x 15 inches wide x 11 inches deep

Sheltered Seahorses Glass Art Sculpture: three seahorses feast off copepods and plankton that settle in the reeds

Sheltered Seahorses

16 inches tall x 14 inches wide x 8 inches deep

 

The Creepers Glass Art Sculpture: an eel slithers through the porous reef, its head lurching out to attack

The Creepers

12 inches tall x 14 inches wide x 18 inches deep

 
 

 

The Lagoon Glass Art Sculpture: Two Manini, or Convict tangs, swim out of a cave and over a Mushroom coral

The Lagoon

21 inches tall x 12 inches wide x 14 inches deep

   
         
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