unusual mottled and cane base on deep red, 7 1/2", excellent........Peter Vanderlaan has been working with glass since a teenager. He has a unique partnership with Mary Beth Bliss. They explore both collaborative and independent designs in glass. Her designs coupled with Vanderlaan's vast knowledge of the material, produced a series of daring examples that push the limits of this amazing fluid called glass.Selected Profession Experiences1993 Co-founded Guadalupe Glass Corporation, an open air demonstration glass works and showroom in Santa Fe, NM1983 Teaching Glass with Fritz Dreisbach, Shorty Finley, and Mary Beth Bliss at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX.1978 Teaching Assistant to Dale Chilhuly & Dan Daily, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA1976 Moved Glory Hole Glassworks to La Cienega, NM and built, with Mary Beth Bliss, new glass studio & hot shop.1974 Visiting Artist: Glassblowing intstruction at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu1973 Built, with Dale Chilhuly, a glassworks for the Sante Fe Indian School and conducted extended glasscasting and glassblowing workshops with Dale Chilhuly at Glory Hole Glassworks, Sante Fe, NM1970 Apprenticed as a glassblower at Glory Hole Glassworks, in Sante Fe, NM, with Mel Knowles & Jack Miller, purchasing the glassworks six months later.