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An adventurous approach,grounded in love of the natural world, made me the perfect fit for the Cosmic Windows for Green Mountain Monastery, USA. This film explains more:

For international exhibitions, I play with curiosity. This year I combined glass and soft materials in pieces for OPAM, Japan and Jaipur, India.

My work in cast glass has been inspired by concepts of time. I was commissioned by Leeds University Chaplaincy to make a contemporary blue glass font and this has been in use since 2004. Now semi retired and with limited working facilities I continue making smaller works and run introductory cast glass courses for secondary school students.

Amy is a specialist in glass casting, currently working at Plymouth College of Art (0.4) as Workshop Coordinator for the Glass department.
Alongside designing and creating jewellery and sculpture with a coastal connection, Amy is a commissioned artist.

Ana works across a range of media including sculpture, installation, photography and drawing. She has a fascination with the emotional, symbolic and metaphorical dimensions of materials and objects and the histories and narratives which surround them. The back-story narrative gives her work a storied content which engages the viewer and compels them to look again. Using a process of inclusion and incorporation to embed objects in crystal glass, her poetic sculptures move towards a new possibility for glass.

Nowadays she enjoys to work with the glass in movement but being cold. While the paste of glass is wet, she can handle, model or texture it until it dries. Then it goes to the kiln with very little support.The result that she prefers is when the pieces are delicate, ethereal and you can even see through the paste of glass.

In 2024, I was selected for Collect Open, the curated section of Collect—the Crafts Council’s international art fair at Somerset House in London. This was an exciting opportunity to present a new and ambitious body of work to an international audience, and to share my ongoing exploration of form, transparency, and the natural world through flameworked glass.

The same year, my work was acquired by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in the United States, with inclusion in a major contemporary glass exhibition scheduled for 2025. This marked an important milestone for me, reflecting the growing international reach and institutional recognition of my practice.

I was also invited to take part in a three-person exhibition at Poatina Tree Gallery in Tasmania, exhibiting alongside leading Indigenous artists. The show encouraged cross-cultural exchange and highlighted shared ideas around material, making, and meaning.

Recent work includes the reception area windows for a new school building, an interior window for a wine lover, and fused glass font bowl and inserts for church furniture.