A flameworker who often collaborates with husband Mark Petrovic, Russell-Pool’s sculptures are feminine, delicate and brimming with mind bending detail. “I am primarily a flame worker. I create form from pattern with a technique I developed on my own. My overall approach is one of a watercolor. Coloring with glass powders, and pulling my own glass rods, allows us an extraordinary control over
color. By layering the color and manipulating the density, our hope is the flow between the blown and flame-worked glass appears effortless. In glass there is often a ‘right’ way to do things. I am more a proponent of the cowboy way.  The cowboy way invites nvention, and serves the master of the final result, rather than proper technique. I am proud to be called a craftsman, because craftsmanship underlies all I do, even if I am occasionally caught being an artist.”

Education
1990 BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH

Selectied Exhibitions
2011 Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
         Glass Weekend, NJ, Duane Reed Gallery
2010 The Merwin & Wakeley Galleries, Bloomington, IL
         Hot Tea: 12th Biennial Teapot Exhibition, St. Louis, MO
         Pilchuck Glass School Session Five, WA
         Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
         International Flameworking Conference, NJ
2009 Glass Weekend, Wheaton Arts, Milleville, NJ
2008 Mint Museum of Craft & Design, NC
         Women’s Glass Invitational, Dane Gallery, MA
2007 Dane Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2006 SOFA Chicago, Riley Galleries, Chicago, IL
2005 SOFA Chicago, Riley Galleries, Chicago, IL
         Glass Weekend, Millville, NJ, Riley Hawk Galleries
         Habatat Invitational, Habatat Gallery, FL
2004 SOFA Chicago, Riley Galleries, Chicago, IL
         Glass Weekend, Millville, NJ, Riley Hawk Galleries
         Thomas Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH
         Habatat Invitational, Habatat Gallery, FL                     

Selected Collections
      American Glass Museum, Milleville, NY
      Charlotte Mint Museum, Ashville, NC
      Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
      Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
      Smithsonian Museum of American Art
      Niijma Museum of Glass,
      Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Tokyo, Japan
      Tucson Museum of Art, AZ
      Seattle Art Museum, WA