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Art must tell stories. Stories of what happened, of what is happening and of what will happen. This is the best way to describe Cristina's artistic understanding. 
Brush and pencil have been her constant companions since she was a child. She completed her training in Milan at the Accademia di belle Arti di Brera. Her focus was on classical painting and sculpture. 
 After her studies, Cristina opened the art office Officinae Artis with colleagues. During this time she created large trompe-l'oeil paintings (illusionary paintings) in various Milanese apartments.
Following the call of gold, she learns how to work with the fine precious metal in a family business in Milan. There she also discovers another love. glass. It is invisible and yet present, it is normal and precious, with light the material is unique.
In addition to the glass works, she also creates sculptures in bronze. Glass becomes Cristina's main material during this time.
Glass fusing and casting become the signature of her artistic work for many years.
Currently Cristina has devoted herself to painting again. However, no longer only of the purely classical kind, she tries to combine new and old techniques. She works on her themes with mouse and brush, with print and acrylic, with photography and painting.
Cristina's seminars (workshops) benefit from her classical training at the Accademia di belle Arti di Brera and her constant search for new things. Although with a material such as glass the technique and "how to do it" is a very important point, the creative work remains in the foreground.

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created with glass, because precisely this material gives her many opportunities to achieve what she wants to express. Her background is painting and working with colored glass for many years. Fusing, furnace casting and glass painting are among your areas of work. Jakobine's works are influenced by her experience as a painter, so that she creates wall objects, sculptures and masks with colored crumbs, fries and powders. In addition to her personal work, she carries out drafts for colleagues and designers. Jakobine regularly gives workshops and has taught at various summer academies at home and abroad.

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Uschi Ullmann

was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. Since her apprenticeship as a glass designer from 1977 to 1980 at the Glasfachschule Zwiesel, she has been working on the production of functional, individually designed utility glass. Against the background of her work as managing director of OPTUL Spezialglas GmbH, the focus of her work since 1997 has been on the development of colours fusible with float glass and the production of a comprehensive range of materials.

In 1992 she received the Bavarian State Prize and in 1993 the Hessian State Prize.

Uschi Ullmann lives and works in Ortenburg near Passau.

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