Mayauel Ward, a native Californian, strives to capture nature in his paperweights; he creates bouquets of delicate flowers, aquariums and desert environments. Like so many other artists he started his glassmaking career at Correia Art Glass and later went to work at Abelman Glass Studio. Mayauel Ward began making lampwork paperweights in 1987. In his early weights he used a “W” cane, but found that it tended to interfere with the design. Since 1994 he has signed and dated his paperweights either on the side or on the polished base.

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