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I use a range of kiln-formed techniques but I am drawn to pâte de verre (glass paste). My forms are created using clay and wax. Sand from my favourite locations incorporated into my work adds texture and ‘grounds’ my work, creating a sense of place.

My poppy bowls and plates are very popular as well as my Christmas trees at Christmas time. I have a permanent display at Burgh House in Hampstead,London where I had an exhibition last summer. I am very excited to have been chosen to be one of the 14 artists selected to have a showcase at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland where I will be exhibiting from November 19th until 12th January 2015.

I show my work locally, often with my local art group, SEAS www.searts.co.uk. I accept private commissions, for windows, or custom made pieces. I also show work in selected galleries. I offer courses for very small groups or on a one to one basis, locally in Deal, East Kent: techniques offered are fusing and/or other glass techniques such as painting and enamelling.

I am a socially engaged interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, sound, and installation, sometimes simultaneously. Much of my work is an exploration of difficult and uncomfortable aspects of being human: dying and forgiveness. I use performance as part of a practice to make compelling and safe situations and environments inviting deep introspection from viewers and participants. Often using glass for its sonic, encapsulating, and transparent qualities, live performances may include the making and/or destruction of objects. Using my body to act upon objects I have often made can emit sound transcendent. These actions can also catalyse cacophony when objects are destroyed, but in that destructive action, there is space for transcendence.

Much of my practice is collaborative and projects like the live performance Torcher Chamber Arkestra combine fire, music, sound, and electronics and are collaborative not only between the performers, but with the audience as well. Projects such as Forgiveness, are not only interactive but often collaborate with supported groups, in situations with imbedded duty of care.

I try to make work that is emotionally and spiritually useful. Feedback teaches me that these works can be beneficially life-changing for some and that the environment of an exhibition which contains captured and broadcast performances, can lead to social dialogue and exchange with profound positive effect.

I produce organic work that shows flow and movement. I create my own moulds to shape the glass and use different colours to emphasise form and shape. My work ranges from cast glass sculptures to wall hangings, delicate paper-thin vessels and unique commissioned pieces. I also produce designer glass splashbacks. I work with all sorts of glass but like working with recycled Dartington Crystal to produce dramatic bowls and cast pieces.

In my work I manipulate figurative imagery, Mixing glass painting and surface techniques With other media to translate my ideas. I use glass to layer the dynamics of the figure into sculptural forms, exploiting the transparency of the medium to translate ideas.combining fused glass with leads and metals, stains and oxides, I have a particular fondness for glass painting. my work can involve paint, glass and mosaic. more recent work has been exploring glass mosaic and using my knowledge of glass to create tesserae.