About the Author Rae Grout: I have been creating glass beads and glass art since 2002. Before my life as a glass artist, I was a Process Engineer with a Chemical Engineering background in the field of printed circuit boards. Living in Seattle gave me the opportunity to be a consultant for companies such as Microsoft, Boeing, Nintendo and several others. After too many ISO seminars and listening to people speak total sentences in acronyms, I decided to stop taking technical classes and began studying art. I fell in love with sculpting and found this to be a Zen-like experience. In addition to sculpting, Pratt had a program that allowed artists to go into Woodland Park Zoo on Saturday’s to study and, with environmentally safe pastels, sketch the animals. I loved being with these beautiful animals and connected with them in so many ways. Our art instructor at the Zoo taught us not only to draw the animal, but also to draw the energy and rhythm of life around the animal. I was able to sell my drawings and paintings in the Rain Forest Café at Wood Land Park Zoo and in the Park Lane Gallery in Kirkland Washington. When my son turned 18 and was moving out of the house to go to college. I had done my motherly duties and it was time for momma to get a life. In 2002, I met the love of my life – Bill Grout, of Aspen Hot Glass. Bill has been making glass beads since 1992. In April of 2003, I gave up corporate life and moved 250 miles away from my family to the beautiful Bitterroot Mountains of Mountain to be with Bill and become a full time glass artist. On January 24, 2004, Bill and I eloped. We live in such a wonderful place of love and harmony I really believe that energy becomes fused into the glass we forge. Our goal is to spread peace and harmony one bead at a time : -) Read more
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