Shirou Yano

Glass artist.  Using a technique that piles layers of plate glass, Yano creates works involving detailed processes of pasting, planing and polishing plates of glass, piece by piece.  Light reflecting on the complicated layers of glass and precise handiwork create mystic works of art.

Yano runs his atelier “ukiroosh.” in Kawaramachi, Tottori Prefecture with another glass artist who is also his wife, Yuuki Takenaka.  Yano is an artist who strategically piles pieces of plate glass in complicated layers while Takenaka is an artist who specializes in pate de verre, a traditional technique from the Occident.  Although their techniques may be different, they both share the same enthusiasm in pursuing the beauty of glass.  They continue to create glass artworks in an isolated town.