A short biography
Edward (Ted) G. Jolda
Ted Jolda,
a former principal of Andrighetti Glassworks, left Vancouver in the fall
of 1992. In the following year of travel, whether he was swimming the canals
of Venice, or crawling through the jungles of S.E. Asia with the freedom
fighters, his thoughts were never far from his passion, Glass.
After his marriage
in Hong Kong (to his high school sweetheart), Jolda studied in the temples
of Thailand and Malaysia where a love of nature and natural forms was reawakened
in him. He remembers: “I was sitting with the master, in quiet contemplation,
and the most beautiful butterfly landed on his knee. It had blue iridescent
wings tinged with copper, then the master crushed the butterfly in his
hand and, slowly he extended it to me and as he opened his hand, there
it was: dead.”
Returning to
Canada, and finally reuniting with his wife Allison, Ted moved to Qualicum
Beach; where he set up a state-of-the-art studio, Warthog Glassworks, in
the town’s renowned art facility, The Old School House, where he became
a focal point of that institution. In 1997 he and Allison bought an 800
sq.ft. Studio with a detached house in the Parksville ghetto. Now, Ted
is generally considered to be the finest glassblower in Parksville.
When not working
with glass, Ted is the senior partner of J&J Logging.
Ted Jolda,
his wife, Allison and their daughter, Victoria and son, Duncan live in
Parksville, B.C.
Contact: ted @ worldwidewarthog.com
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