Hello there,

I am Lena Zaycman,

a multidisciplinary designer & maker

with a special passion for stained glass.

Stained glass is my primary art form that has burst into my life unexpectedly and became a defining aspect of the artistic practice.

After years of constructing large, highly complex stained glass pieces for residential buildings, I gradually moved to creating self-contained art objects that could be easily integrated into interior spaces.

Using the classic Tiffany technique in the base, but not limiting myself to it, I look for ways to combine glass with other materials such as brass, plexiglass, ceramics & etc. In my artistic process, the inspiration often comes from the desire to join materials together. After I find the way to do it, I come up with the shape of the object, and only then I discover the meaning of it. The ways of art are mysterious!

In the medium of stained glass, I have found the perfect balance to combine my technical and sensual creativity. The masculine and feminine sides of me. The one that reflects my love for accurate calculations and engineering insight – something I inherited from my father – and the other that is guided only by my senses and intuition.

I’d say the combination of materials and styles is the way to connect polar sides of my personality. I love both abstract and realistic forms equally, either rich or laconic compositions, either bright & bold or calm & natural colors, either flat or voluminous representations, either purely decorative or where the decorative meets the functional – this allows me to not be stuck in one style and to dive into diverse projects freely.