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cation for me.”
But Kvarnes never taught school. In 1980, he opened his first glass shop in Gid Brown Hollow, which is now occupied by his brother Jensen’s business.
(Jensen had followed in his brother’s glass blowing footsteps.)
But then the Sperryville Junkyard came into the picture, and Kvarnes’ plans began to take shape.
He says, “I bought it from Pete Estes, who did not want to leave a junk yard in the county. He was having a hell of a time selling it. The Woodards (who started Faith Mountain Company) were looking at this location for a time, but Cheri did not want to buy it.”
Cheri Woodard and Kvarnes developed a working relationship when she bought 48 sun catchers from Kvarnes. A sun catcher is a glass blown creation.
Kvarnes’ are cobalt blue, about four inches in diameter, have some sort of design on •them (the most popular have a heart design) and are meant to be hung in a window to catch and reflect light and decorate a home. Woodard did not want to buy more than 48 initially because she was not sure if they would sell.
But Kvarnes relates, “Faith Mountain has bought 75,000 sun catchers from me.”
Kvarnes typifies his glass blowing as “simple and understated. It’s all basically artwork. You can’t go wrong making people happy. My job is to make the world a little more beautiful. I have a theory about art—it’s better than doing nothing. Art creates enjoyment, the enjoyment of doing it and the enjoyment of appreciating it.”
“I built up this artist community. It’s been a long struggle. It took eight and a half years for this building to get done and I built this mostly myself. I had no previous
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