Toland Sand - Studio Art Glass

Optical Float	Neo Retro Curve	Small Curvature
Hemi Semi	The Transaxis DichroCube	Tilted Pyramid

A fifth generation Californian, Toland Sand was born in Berkeley, the son of a career CIA Officer and an artist/teacher. His childhood was spent in California, Taiwan, the Washington, D.C. area and Athens, Greece, where he spent five years and graduated from high school in 1967. For a couple of summers he worked with the Agency and earned his B.A. Phil. From Colorado College in 1971, subsequently working in bookstores in Colorado and D.C. and moving to New Hampshire in 1974.

Always having been drawn to the arts and independence, Sand started working in stained glass in 1977, adding glass blowing in 1984, and settling into glass sculpture in 1986. Entirely self-taught, he has steadily sought to express his aesthetic in a purer form. Ever innovative, he thrives on creativity, striving to express his sense of drama and beauty while playing with technical ideas.

Sand’s work has been shown in galleries in the U.S. and Europe. His works are in collections around the world. He won the “Art in Public Spaces Award” and was a guest artist at Artpark in New York the same year. Commissions have been completed for NYNEX, IBM, Chubb Life, UPS and others as well as many individual collectors.

“As an artist I come from a sense of design and an aesthetic which is purely artistic. The places I have lived and the wide variety of cultures I’ve experienced have undoubtedly given me a sense of life’s possibilities and richness and I celebrate that. I have no message or outrage to convey. It simply comes from my interior - whatever is there, conscious or unconscious. I don’t try to analyze believe in the sensibilities of the individual - I create what I enjoy and enjoy what I create. Glass is for me the perfect, medium because it has it all: dimension, clarity, color, opacity, reflectivity and environmental presence.”

Sand, his wife Debbe, kids, house and studio share four acres in central New Hampshire.