<Galleries>  <Gallery title="Vessels">      <Object name="Guardiano Rosso eGuardiano a Spiaggie">	<Image pic="Guardiano Rosso e Guardiano a Spiaggie" path="images/ss/GuardianoRosso1.jpg" year="2004" Dimensions="d 10.5-12cm h 120-130cm (excl .stand)" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann"  ExternalURL="www.sandraainsleygallery.com"/><![CDATA[]]>	      </Object>      <Object name="Through a Glass Darkly                 Sidling Up                           Acqua Temptation">	<Image pic="Through a Glass Darkly, Sidling Up, Acqua Temptation 1" path="images/ss/Through1.jpg" year="2007-2008" Dimensions="h 109-118cm d 12.5 -14.5cm" Photographer="Ph: Mark Chivers" ExternalURL="www.vesselgallery.com"/>	<Image pic="Through a Glass Darkly, Sidling Up, Acqua Temptation 2" path="images/ss/Throug2.jpg" year="2007-2008" Dimensions="h 109-118cm d 12.5 -14.5cm" Photographer="Ph: Mark Chivers" ExternalURL="www.vesselgallery.com"/><![CDATA[]]>      </Object>   <Object name="Arctic, Deep Blue and Tropical Guardian">	<Image pic="Arctic, Deep Blue and Tropical Guardian" path="images/ss/Artic1.jpg" year="2007-2008" Dimensions="d 10.5 ­ 12.5cm h 108 ­ 125cm (excl.stand)" Photographer="Ph: Mark Chivers" ExternalURL="www.pismoglass.com"/>	<![CDATA[]]>      </Object><Object name="Guardiano Mocca">	<Image pic="Guardiano Mocca" path="images/ss/GuardianoMocca1.jpg" year="Private Collection" Dimensions="d 12cm h 117cm (excl. stand)" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="www.sandraainsleygallery.com"/><![CDATA[]]></Object><Object name="Clearly Que                      A Sophisticated Lady           A Pig's Tale">	<Image pic="Clearly Que, A Sophisticated Lady, A Pig's Tale" path="images/ss/In a Pig.jpg" year="2007-2008" Dimensions="h 105-125cm d 13-14cm" Photographer="Ph: Mark Chivers" ExternalURL="www.vesselgallery.com"/><![CDATA[]]>      </Object>   <Object name="The Zephyrs">	<Image pic="The Zephyrs 1" path="images/ss/Zephyrs-a.jpg" year="2007" Dimensions="d 12.5 - 14cm h 100 -125cm (excl .stand)" Photographer="Ph. Ch. Lehmnann" ExternalURL="www.sandraainsleygallery.com"/>	<Image pic="The Zephyrs 2" path="images/ss/Zephyrs-b.jpg" year="2007" Dimensions="d 12.5 - 14cm h 100 -125cm (excl .stand)" Photographer="Ph. Ch. Lehmnann" ExternalURL="www.sandraainsleygallery.com"/>	<Image pic="The Zephyrs 3" path="images/ss/Zephyrs-c.jpg" year="2007" Dimensions="d 12.5 - 14cm h 100 -125cm (excl .stand)" Photographer="Ph. Ch. Lehmnann" ExternalURL="www.sandraainsleygallery.com"/><![CDATA[]]>      </Object><![CDATA[We began making these pieces in direct response to the invitation to participate in the first "Aperto Vetro" in Venice in 1996. Our idea was to recreate the powerful cortesans and courtiers of the era of the Doge, prior to the arrival of Napoleon and the fall of Venice as an independent state. They so pleased and inspired us that we have been making them in evolved shapes ever since! Extravagant, decadent, elegant, beautiful, exaggerated, refined, frail or fat: they expand our previous strict notions of form. Essentially they are vessel forms which have been stretched and pulled and elongated to their natural limit. They celebrate the fabulous elasticity of glass and morph from applied art to abstraction while traversing a single articulated line. They are people, they are flora and fauna, they are long necked and extravagant birds; whimsical, amused, fleeting and delicate. They are companions, fellow-travellers with a different perspective.<br><u><a href="http://www.etiennevandendoel.com" target="_blank">www.etiennevandendoel.com</a></u>]]>  </Gallery></Galleries>
