Peggy Shashy, Red-shafted Northern Flicker Feather on Driftwood, 2025, Fused glass, driftwood, 13.5 x 4 x 3.5 in, Red-shafted Northern Flicker Feather on Driftwood

Peggy Shashy is a retired exotic and small animal veterinarian and award-winning fused glass and jewelry artist at the Garry Oak Gallery in Oak Harbor. She is always inspired by nature and her passion for birds and bird watching. She has traveled to Central and South America numerous times to observe parrots and other animals in their native habitat. Now that she has moved to Washington from Florida, she hopes to encourage the public to explore the beauty of the Pacific Northwest as well. Photographs of her work have been on the cover of the Avian Veterinary Medicine Journal and in Richard La Londe's second glass fusing book. She is using a modeling glass technique, crackle glass technique, and exploring glass paints in her current fusing projects.

Her work has been accepted in juried art competitions at the Pace Gallery "Day of the Dead" exhibit in Parker, CO, Jag Gallery "Small Matters" exhibit in Key West, FL, and VMX Veterinary Conference in Orlando, FL. Her most recent work was exhibited at the Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton. Some of her glass feathers are on display at the Flight Patterns exhibit in the Lynnwood Event Center and Wings Over Water exhibit in Blaine, WA. She has been accepted in other juried art competitions in Anacortes, Kenmore, and Vashon Island. She makes her own cabochons (polished stones) from rocks she has collected and wire wraps them. Her jewelry has been displayed at the Schack Art Center, PNW Art School in Coupeville, Vashon Center for the Arts, and Edmonds Arts Festival.