Robert Joseph Rich is a Celtic American glass artist and model maker of old world craft dissent... a throwback blending 19th-century technology and primitive methods in developing the trademark style of a career spanning more than 45 years... etching glass from New York to Hollywood in the American experience of one armed only with little formal schooling... a God-given talent... and a flair for the mystical and otherworldly... Rich has travelled the nation going from street artist to studio master... achieving excellence through reclusive self-education and old-fashioned hard work... Establishing a repertoire of styles tools cuts methods and machines of his own low-tech engineering and old world design Mr. Rich is a serious multi-conceptual artist having a long history in his chosen mediums and one of extraordinary range... here only by the grace of God at 64 years of age and internationally published he is now an elder statesman of a dying art known to few... save the ancient ones.