Jamie Sherman was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1949 and finished his education at Humber College and Sheridan College School of Design in 1980. That year he built a glassblowing studio and began developing designs in vessel forms and sculpture. By 1982 he had won both the Molsens Design Award of Excellence and Best of Show at the Hamilton ‘Festival of Friends’.

In 1988, representatives of the Royal Ontario Museum approached Jamie to reproduce glass from their Canadiana collection. This led to an ongoing authenticated and signed reproduction of Canada’s oldest known blown glass artifact, Ontario’s 1839 Mallorytown Pitcher. The development of this reproduction was documented by T.V. Ontario’s ‘Hands Over Time’ in February 1989. Since then, two other R.O.M. reproductions have been developed, one which was presented to the Lieutenant Governor Of Ontario in 1990, and the other to the Governor General Of Canada in 1994.

In the past 22 years of designing and blowing glass, Jamie has been invited into several juried exhibitions including: ‘The Canadian Glass Art Exhibition’, Centre D’Art Du Mont Royal, ‘Ontario Hot Glass’, Toronto, and the 1989 ‘Masterpieces of Glass’, The Beckett Gallery, Hamilton. Eleven times winner of the Muskoka Arts and Crafts ‘Best Of Glass award, three times the ‘Award of Excellence’, the 1995 recipient of the Patricia M. Boyer award for ‘Best in Three Dimensional Work’, Best Use of Colour’, 1996, and the ‘Judges Choice’ award for photography. Jamie’s ‘Roman Bird’ was acquired in 1997 for the permanent collect of Muskoka Arts and crafts, and was awarded an ‘Art and Protégé Award’ commission from Toronto Arts Foundation Lifetime Achievement recipient Jack McClelland.

Jamie’s most recent work in glass has continued to explore old and new glassworking techniques and has used some of these discoveries in creating new directions for himself in sculpture. In 2003, Jamie completed a series of three sculptures for Delaney Capital Corp. and hosted ‘Riverglass’ a one man show of new works in glass as well as photography. Music rounds out a busy creative schedule as Jamie plays jazz influenced guitar at Picasso’s Restaurant in Orillia every week.