Ed began working with hot glass n 1978. He attended Penland School in North Carolina and Pennsylvania State University. Ed is an independent studio glass artist who experiments with precious metals and chemicals to create his own colors, which are unique to his glass art sculptures.

Ed uses a technique of coloring the hot glass surface, which is called 'veiling'. A veil is a metallic coating of glass oxides, which is applied to the hot glass then coved with another layer of molten clear glass, trapping the color inside the sculpture. Ed's transparent sculptures maximize the extraordinary inherent qualities of glass.

Every design is handcrafted using wooden blocks and newspaper to shape and form the molten glass. After the sculptures have been cooled to room temperature, overnite, they are hand ground and polished. Each flat surface on each piece must go through six individual, different steps of polishing to achieve the optically polished surface Ed is noted for. The facets are added to give visual enhancement to the interior glass 'veiling'.

Each sculpture is personally signed by the artist.