About

After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, Glover began a 25-year career as an international consultant in corporate strategy, industry best practices, and marketing communications.  In the late 1990s, she made the decision to follow a growing desire to realign her work with her earlier studies in visual arts.  Her art pursuit went public quickly. Within 10 years she secured gallery representation in Philadelphia, Santa Fe, and St. Louis.  Her work is featured in national and international art fairs such as Art Aspen, Intersect Palm Springs, SOFA/Chicago/NYC, International Art On Paper, and the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Cheongju-City, Korea.  Her abstract wall sculptures have appeared in numerous craft and fine art publications, and are in several museums’ permanent collections.

Glover is fascinated by the infinite potentials of paper as a medium that is supremely suited as a construction material, combining strength with flexibility, and inviting shaping with folding, tearing, piercing, cutting, and collage.  Early on in her return to the arts, she studied and worked with many forms of book-construction, and, like the abstract sculptor Anthony Caro, immediately seized upon the possibilities of building complex, engineered structures with paper.

Her chosen material is a heavy, all-cotton handmade paper from India.  Beyond its notable strength and springiness, its surface is toothy, which enhances its acceptance of color, and it is highly reflective of light, which gives it a natural radiance.  “It has a wonderful feel as well,” she says, “It’s smooth, but with an almost living, sinuous texture -- reptilian.”

Working with strips of graduated width, she builds lines of paper into fluid, undulating surfaces.  The completed structural complexity creates exciting visual effects. Areas of brightness and deeper shadow appear to shift dramatically as the viewer changes position relative to the piece.  Light and dark run along the paper lines, creating a sense of constant motion.  Along the deeper curves, movement becomes mysterious, appearing to flow and almost breathe as the viewer’s gaze and perspective shift.  One collector remarks, “I feel that the piece is alive and is looking back at me.”

Glover’s work currently is represented by the Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, MO.