My name is Mia and I am the sole owner and operator of my own small Queer Stained Glass business, Wild Flower Glassworks. We believe in producing quality glasswork that is affordable and accessible.

I started my business in late 2019, after spending 17 years helping my mother with her own Stained Glass business. My mother started her business in 2002 and because of that I absorbed and learned the craft from helping her at events, shows and later at her physical location in our home town of Red Lion.

Since then I’ve been working to discover my artistic voice and perfecting my skills. While I have always felt creative, glass in a medium in which I feel that I am an artist. I’ve been able to experience the excitement of making a piece of art, one that not everyone can make as easily.

I’ve now learned that stained glass is not a hard art to do, it’s hard to get good at. It took me a full year to  truly improve my soldering, arguably the most important part of the stained glass process. With each piece, I learned how to design better pieces, pick better color palettes and play around with the medium of glass.

I find that I enjoy the aspect of turning primarily paintings or photographs into glass. Playing with how I can simplify a landscape and still allow it to be recognizable to the viewer. Nothing worse than hearing someone say they don’t know what they are looking at.