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Glass sculptures are my focus. Each piece goes through multiple steps that can include firings in the kiln, lamination and cold-working.

Making glass pieces gives me a chance to explore the fluid forms of glass and how colors react with each other. I enjoy the challenge melting or combining glass provides because it often has its own idea of where to go and how to behave.

Provenance studies of Portuguese Glasses.
Development of luminescent transparent glasses under UV light for application in artwork.
Development of red glasses with application in artwork.
Preparation of glasses using recipes from batch books of early 20th century.
Coordinated the organization of two exhibutions, one in Venice and another in Lisbon under the theme
glass and light (www.glass-light.org) – 2015-2016
White opaque glass without arsenic
Luminescent opaque glass

As a former knitwear designer, fusing allows me to create forms which have a textile, flowing quality. Sand casting gives me a deeper, more mysterious, alchemic medium to pour into layers, creating more primitive sculptural forms. My vessels express my previous textile background and love of patterns and colours, whilst in the more sculptural pieces I focus on emotions or moments trapped in time which the viewer can make their own.

I am a member of the Lunesdale Studio Trail which takes place annually in May/June and comprises 20 artists working in a variety of materials opening their studios to the public. I also take part in local craft fairs, sell my work at a number of outlets including the local tourist information centres, I undertake commissions and made the annual awards for The Lancashire Environment Fund for several years. I am available to run taster courses for groups such as GCSE students, libraries and artitsts groups.

My work explores the colour and texture of glass fusing materials and techniques in a painterly way, an intuitive response to an image or drawing, further enhanced by the surprises created during the glass firing process. Favourite inspirational locations include South Devon, West Cornwall, Dorset and the South Downs.

After working with a kiln that is 6in by 6in is hard to do everything I want, but I’m ready to try whatever I can fit in it. Lots of failures but pleased with what comes out ok. I am now a student at the University of Sunderland based at the National Glass Centre in my second year of BA (Hons) Artist Designer Maker – Glass and Ceramics. And have purchased a bigger kiln to do my work due to lockdown. So I am now able to experiment more with kiln glass.