{"id":1334,"date":"2012-10-14T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T22:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2012-11-04T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T02:30:40","slug":"david-forbes-artist-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"John Forbes Artist Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Started working in glass in 1968.<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdartglass.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.bdartglass.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John started working with stained glass in 1968 in Bonnie Doon, CA. As a 1960s musician \/artist \u201cflower child\u201d, he had visions of stained glass windows and focused on learning to make windows. He taught himself the craft by picking up windows from abandoned buildings and repairing them himself. Forbes traveled east to seek out Tiffany windows and to Europe, searching for Art Nouveau windows. He also &#8220;got into the Car thing&#8221;. He was inspired by Dan Fenton (they \u201creally clicked\u201d), David Ruth and Jim Lundberg. John\u2019s path has been to do commissions, \u201cto make pieces for people\u201d. He has made many large commissions, including McFly bars and restaurants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1743\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kelp_window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1743\" title=\"kelp_window\" src=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kelp_window.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kelp_window.jpg 406w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kelp_window-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelp Window<br \/>John Forbes<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1742\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/johnsglass_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1742\" class=\" wp-image-1742\" title=\"johnsglass_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/johnsglass_0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/johnsglass_0001.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/johnsglass_0001-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/johnsglass_0001-482x300.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glass Car<br \/>John Forbes<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started working in glass in 1968. www.bdartglass.com John started working with stained glass in 1968 in Bonnie Doon, CA. As a 1960s musician \/artist \u201cflower child\u201d, he had visions of stained glass windows and focused on learning to make windows. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}