Bibi Smit (born 1965) is a Dutch glass artist and designer known for creating objects and installations that explore the patterns and rhythms caused by movement in nature.
From 1988 to 1989, she worked as a glassblowing assistant with David Kaplan and Annica Sandstrom at Lindean Mill Glass,[3] Scotland.
She established a small studio with equipment for grinding and polishing, whilst blowing her designs at Edinburgh College of Art and a hire furnace in Newcastle upon Tyne.
After living fourteen years in the United Kingdom, Smit moved back to the Netherlands, to the heart of Amsterdam.
According to the director of the National Glass Museum, Arend-Jan Weijsters, her work becomes strong in the unusual intersection between the simplicity of form and the mysterious appearance.
[13] In 2019, she showcased the “Swarm” chandeliers and a series of vases in a presentation, which was inspired by the light and colour palette of the master painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
Her work has increasingly been connected to nature and the material itself, in the search for beauty and eagerness to achieve new knowledge about glass fluidity and movement.