Florence Ng

Florence was trained in Manual and Applied Arts in Baharuddin Vocational Institute in Singapore from 1973 to 1975. There, she was one of forty students per cohort in the graphic design program – then known as commercial art – where she honed her skills in illustration and advertising.

Florence’s first encounter with glass was in 1984, when she contracted, supplied and installed glass for windows. Eager to explore more ways of creating art in glass, she flew to the biggest glass trade fair in Europe, held in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1990. Florence also travelled to Seattle, US, to learn the art of glass fusing and blowing from American artists Roger Nachman and Carmen.

Despite working with glass for more than twenty years, Florence remains extremely dedicated to this material, believing that there is more to glass that has yet to be explored. With new technology in the market, Florence continues to push the boundaries of the material with her unique eye for combining varied techniques and technology to execute her original concepts in glass.