Glass art inspired by nature, and nurtured through form and line by Jean Twombly, stained glass and mosaic artist.
Woodworking and marquetry arts created by Peter Tourin, renowned musical instrument maker.
A river of moonlight illuminates two loons on a New England lake.
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A restless wave scours the shore.
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Poppies blooming along the roadside.
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October on the marsh interrupted by an early snowfall.
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A fugue by JS Bach as it might look in color.
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A monarch alights on a sunlit wall.
On exhibit at "Emergence", Center for the Arts New London, NH
Crossing the stone bridge into October woods.
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Hydrangeas and clematis in a New England garden.
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As artists we are drawn to explore the principles of symmetry and free form found in the natural world - mountains, the sea and sand, lakes and forest scapes, and the creatures around us. As trained musicians with professional performing careers, we also seek ways to visualize musical sound. Please note: our works are protected by copyright. Please contact us to request permission to use our images or our designs.
A nautilus shell is washed ashore and captured in glass. See and purchase at Grounds Cafe, New London, NH
A custom guitar decorated with bloodwood and green abalone by Tourin Musica 2025
An outdated mirrored set of closet doors is transformed to meditative state with rice paper and an artful figured sapele wood design. 2019
"A bird of paradise flower blooms against Calathea leaves
A custom mango and sapele marquetry panel covers utilities on a lanai in Wailea
Flying waves at Rye Beach
Kiawe root and stained glass sculpture. 2025
A jewelry box in the style of a Hawaiian guitar created in spalted maple
A decorative panel in sapele and waterglass with a mirror overlaid with spalted maple
Waterscapes: looking through the paper birches at the lake in spring.
2024 commission
A moment captured from my kayak. 2023
A male bluebird soars above a grassy meadow in Vermont: a 20" hanging panel, 2022 commission.
A violin appears to fly apart from exhilaration - from a painting Perpetual Motion by Stephen D. Twombly 1984
Decorative head on an English Renaissance viola da gamba by Peter Tourin.
Musicians at rest during a rehearsal break. Cello, violin, and harpsichord captured in a stained glass window for Arcadia Players, Northampton, MA.
A violin played with exhileration after a painting by Stephen Twombly. 2025 commission
Angel musician after Fra Angelico
Waterscapes: Celebrating New England in Fall.
Earthscapes: a monarch butterfly and caterpillar grace a field of milkweed in late summer. Stained and dichroic glass mosaic. 2024
A collaboration creating artwork in wood and glass since 1995.
Peter Tourin began his career as a harpsichord apprentice with Frank Hubbard, then worked with luthier Donald Warnock. By the 1990s he had built a world-wide reputation as a renowned builder of beautiful Renaissance and Baroque stringed instruments. Funded by the grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Peter researched historic viole da gamba in museums and private collections in North America and Europe in the 1980s, which enabled him to develop a body of fine instruments that reflected the historic designs of various cultures and centuries. These 125 instruments are prized by performing musicians in many countries today.
Currently working with ecologically-sourced exotic woods, Peter brings high design to homescapes with one-of-a-kind projects from his workshops in Maui and New Hampshire.
Jean Twombly has been creating glass art since the mid 1990s. Trained in the techniques used by the glass masters of the early 20th century, she infuses modern sensibilities into her glass designs, challenging the solid nature of glass to move into curve, color, light and dimension. Her work is inspired by nature and by sound, and in service of this inspiration, she looks for the architecture of a subject and distills it to discover its underlying essence and simplicity.
In her Waterscapes series, she develops form and line into an expression of ocean waves, wind ruffled lakes and quiet ponds. In the Music at Work series, she seeks to convey with color, form and line the experience of hearing music. In the Earthscapes series, she molds the diverse textures, transparencies and colors of glass into an experience that mirrors a moment in nature.
Her work can be seen in art shows and galleries in New England and Maui and at her studio in Kihei, Hawai'i.