Abstract Cheetah Sculpture

A hand-blown art glass sculpture that distills the cheetah's feral elegance into pure abstracted form, its proportions — thirteen and a half inches tall, nearly ten inches wide — commanding presence without demanding volume. John Richard renders the animal kingdom through the lens of the studio glass tradition, where heat and breath and the maker's hand conspire to produce something at once molten and precise. The translucent materiality of the glass lends the piece an interior luminosity, as though light itself has been captured mid-movement within the silhouette.