Thomas P. Kelly creates elegant, contemporary designs with an Art Deco flair, using ancient glassblowing techniques.

Working in his Corning, NY studio Kelly designs and executes a wide range of works including vases, bowls, perfume vials, paperweights and sculptural forms. Drawing on classical influences, he explores the optical properties of glass and conveys a sense of the fluidity of the medium.

A highly versatile designer, Kelly's works range from simple statements in form and color to pieces with elaborate surface decoration. 

His series of Deco Perfume Vials feature graceful wings of frosted glass, curved gently around the colored bottle.  Each one-of-a-kind piece is free blown, without the use of molds. Many of his designs combine clear crystal with colored glass in a variety of transparent, translucent and opaque formulations.

Kelly has trained with leading glass artists, including Lino Tagliapietra, Fritz Dreisbach and Thomas Buechner III. In 1996, after ten years with Buechner, he took over ownership of Vitrix Hot Glass Studio, which Buechner had founded.

Kelly was integrally involved in Vitrix Studio work that has been published in The Corning Museum's prestigious New Glass Review 3, 4 and 8 (only 100 works are selected annually from thousands of international entries).

His studio's work has been shown at major museums throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Among the museums that have purchased Vitrix work for their permanent collections are The Corning Museum of Glass, NY; the Rockwell Museum, NY; the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Germany; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The New Orleans Museum of Art; and London's Victoria & Albert Museum.