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Dutch Schulze
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Dutch graduated from the University of Missouri in 1968 and studied Art and Art History for a year at Wagner College in Bregenz, Austria.In the early 1970’s Dutch began sculpting in wood. Dutch’s style was representational and his subject was most often the human form.
He moved to the Southern Oregon Coast in 1975 and with fellow artists established a gallery from which he sold his wood sculptures. During this time Dutch sculpted with many different materials, and by 1985 he was creating glass sculpture using the pate’ de verre technique. With the opening of the Plum Trees Glass Studio at Sixes, Oregon, Dutch had access to hot glass and began making sand-cast glass sculpture.Soon he was assisting in the creation of large, blown-glass vessels at the Plum Trees Glass Studio, and beginning to learn the different skills involved in blowing glass. After three years of apprenticeship, Dutch built his own studio, Vitra Blown Glass, in 1991.Blown Glass is a medium that excels in rich and brilliant color. Dutch employs a color application technique that involves the layering of different transparent colors over opaque design patterns. This produces a subtly complex color background upon which he picks up hot twisted cane and murrini. The result is the flowing “ Dreamscape” effect which makes his blown work unique and recognizable.
Dutch also makes non-vessel, sculptural cast glass in addition to his blown glass work. He creates a sculpture in clay, then takes it through the lost wax mold making process, and casts the piece in a large kiln. It remains in the kiln, at a temperature of 900 degrees, for as long as two weeks before it can be safely removed. The mold is then chiseled off, and the surface of the sculpture is polished with diamond abrasives.
In 1997 Dutch and his wife, Aro, moved their hot shop to Bandon-By-The-Sea. Their facility is called Bandon Glass Art Studio.
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