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 Without a doubt, Gail Heinze-Milne was born to be an artist. But she took the scenic route, which offered a few expansive detours along the way. Like many creative people 30 years ago, pragmatism proved akin to virtue, and Gail chose biology at Dalhousie University instead of the performing arts. After graduating in 1974, she went to work as a naturalist, first here, and then in western Canada. The ability to think with both sides of her brain—logically and creatively—is a wonderful advantage with glass. Like an organic chemist, Gail can visualize and rotate three-dimensional objects that exist only in her mind. She can puzzle out the best way to design a delicate stained-glass window that needs to survive the slings and arrows of a Canadian winter. She’s now fusing and slumping glass in ways that she couldn’t have imagined just a year or two ago, and taking copious notes so she can reproduce her discoveries.
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