G Magazine

Liz Daly-Korybski
glass artist and jewelry designer

"Creating glass is a highly technical art form. It must be precise to the tenths of degrees of temperature,” explains Liz Daly-Korybski as she sorts through the boxes of small, jewel-colored glass pieces she will fuse to create her signature jewelry. Fingering a vibrant pendant beside them, the pad of her thumb running across the miniature landscape’s ridges and valleys, she continues, “to create something functional out of glass, that is also an art form.”

Art in many iterations abounds in the combination gallery and studio she owns on South Main Street. Filled with a plethora of pleasing glass objects that range from tactile pendants, fluted vases, sturdy wine stoppers, and a whole section devoted to “up-cycled” treasures created from guitar picks, bottle caps, and other found materials, it is a place that begs lingering. Daly-Korybski admits this was done with intent, just as she positioned her studio to be open to the gallery, inviting browsers in to explore her creative process. “I owe a lot of my success to Open Studios, and this way, it is like Open Studios all the time,” she notes.

Confessing she is “obsessed with glass,” Daly-Korybski chronicles an artistic journey that began with the study of jewelry design in college. She took a detour through corporate America (one that she credits for her shrewd business sense) then rediscovered her love of glass and jewelry and never looked back.

But she’s quick to point out that her style and the pieces she creates are always evolving. “Every few years as a designer you have to not just keep up with the Joneses, but go ahead of them,” she declares. To that end, the painted signs she’s posted around the walls, “Play,” “Create,” and “Learn,” serve as constant reminders to keep stretching her creative boundaries. Daly-Korybski is also adding classes to the mix. “I like to encourage artists. When they create, it inspires others, and me, too.”

Liz Daly-Korybski | Daly Designs | 421 S. Main Street
Greenville | www.dalydesigns.com | (864) 325-4445

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