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about
Today, Playful Flame Glassworks ships its radiant creations all over Canada.Crafted in the heart of Granisle British Columbia, Nicholas and Ankeeta Kitras kindled their dream:
Playful Flame Glassworks, a studio where molten glass transforms into timeless treasures.
Nicholas, a second-generation glassblower graduated from Fleming Collage with an associates degree in applied arts and technology specializing in glassblowing.
Ankeeta, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Major in glass art from the Alberta Collage of Art and design.
Their love story began in the Yukon where Nicholas was traveling for work and Ankeeta was on scholarship working. When they married, they vowed to build a life—and a business—that fused their talents.
artist statement
Our signature sun catchers are more than ornaments; they are “light keepers.” Hung in a window, each ornament transforms sunlight into many colours, casting stories onto walls—a fleeting homage to the North’s ever-changing skies.
Nicholas’s glass ornaments, delicate as frost yet sturdy as the boreal forest, are heirlooms in the making. His inspiration is drawn from the natural world, where the intricate patterns, vibrant colours, and organic forms of the earth and its elements spark his creativity.
His glass art specializes in ornaments with webs in them. When the glass is hot, he pinches a bubble and everywhere he pinched, the glass touches itself and when he blows into the bubble, it stretches the glass, like when you put bubble gum between your fingers and it stretches.
