No Green Berries or Leaves

No Green Berries or Leaves is a collection of autobiographical essays by Paul J. Stankard, one of the world's master glass artists who is particularly renowned for his flameworked floral motifs expressed in crystal paperweights, rectangular columns, and orbs.Paul was trained in scientific glassblowing and worked in industrial glass during the 1960s. Challenged by an inner sense of creativity and the need to establish his creative independence, he started making paperweights in the early 1970s. Attracted to the emerging studio glass movement, recognized as a maker of fine paperweights, and driven by an intense and incessant pursuit of excellence, Paul was ? by the 1980s ? recognized as a highly accomplished glass artist, a member of the pioneering generation of glass artists in America. Throughout his life, Paul also wrestled with, and learned how to succeed in spite of, a learning disability ? dyslexia.No Green Berries or Leaves presents the author's record of his life as a struggling, then highly successful, artist; reveals insights into the challenges he faced as a dyslexic and how he came to understand, then circumvent, his disability; and records his perspectives on the history of the studio glass movement in America as he witnessed and experienced it during the past fifty years.Stankard, Paul J. is the author of 'No Green Berries or Leaves', published 2007 under ISBN 9780939923557 and ISBN 0939923556.