In 1984, Donald Robertson graduated from Sheridan College in Ontario. He specialises in the pate de verre technique. He has shown his work in Canada, the United States and Europe. Recently, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts acquired one of his pieces. Donald has given pate de verre workshops in Belgium and Alberta. From 1997 to 1999, he was a member of Espace VERRE’s board of directors. In 2002, he was chosen to created a piece for Daum France. That same year, he received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to further his pate de verre work. Since 1989, Donald teaches cold glass work, kiln working, pate de verre, glass technology and maintaining a glass studio at Espace VERRE.

Artists dream of making us conscious of the links between the invisible universe and their visible creations. To achieve this goal, Robertson accentuates the discord that can exist between seeing and thinking. When looking at The Source, for example, we can do little but see a familiar object. We cannot prevent our eyes from returning to the centre of the rings, where everything might have begun. Even the ambiguity of the ‘pâte de verre’ (molten glass) and its false transparency pushes us to search for what might have emanated from it – but that we don’t really see.