Stan Harmon

"I am a self-taught artist in addition to recently retiring from a career with an international environmental management company. My work with various glass techniques since the late ‘70s has provided me insight into the magic that can be produced when light is combined with glass. Sheets of raw glass can be objects of beauty in themselves. The challenge as an artist is to harness and then transform that intrinsic beauty into my interpretations of the natural world. I live on a river in eastern North Carolina and daily saturate myself with all that lives in and along its shores. It’s only natural that my life style influences my art."

Stan Harmon grew up in the small piedmont town of Newton, NC. He moved to eastern North Carolina after high school to attend East Carolina University. He studied chemistry until landing a job in the environmental water resources field. If you ask him, Stan will say that his creative undertakings began “in the sandbox.” He taught himself traditional stained glass techniques in 1979 while in the process of restoring a historic home in Lenoir County, NC. Since that time, he has restored historic homes in Pitt and Greene County, NC and produced stained glass works for churches, commercial buildings, and private residences.

Other creative endeavors have included designing, building, and landscaping koi ponds, niche gardens and fabricating high end architecturally accurate birdhouses. In 2004, Stan drastically reduced his work in the environmental water field; moved to New Bern, NC; and shifted his focus to warm glass techniques. Stan combines casting and fusing processes in the current series of panels depicting various species of fish, birds, palms and landscapes. He uses his knowledge of metal work to craft the unique hangers that accent each panel.