Artist Jenny Gaynor creates glass vase heirlooms

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Glass artist Jenny Gaynor has come up with a new twist on the family album. Instead of mounting snapshots, she photo-transfers them onto recycled glass vases. Images of vacations, weddings, anniversaries, retirements -- or anything else you can think of -- are all grist for the mill.

Her new endeavor started when she made a vase to commemorate her trip to Murano, Italy. ‘I was selling jewelry at the time and would take the vase to gift shows as part of my display,’ she says. ‘People kept asking to buy it.’

The vases are available in three sizes and make unique, personalized gifts. A 20-inch tall vase like the one shown here sells for $550 and holds 12 to 24 vertical images. Customers can e-mail digital prints with their order to zerominusples@earthlink.net, or they can mail or drop prints to Zero Minus Plus, 500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Gaynor also can add a message of up to 40 characters to the bottom of the vase. If you love a single image and want it repeated on the glass, you can request that. But otherwise the layout is generally left to Gaynor’s artistic license.

Above: An example of one of Gaynor’s small memory vases is 12 inches in diameter and 9 inches tall. It costs $475 and requires nine to 18 horizontal images. Below: A medium memory vase is 7 inches in diameter and 12 inches tall. It costs $475 and holds nine to 18 vertical images.

-- Barbara Thornburg

Photos courtesy of Jenny Gaynor