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Working from my home studio on the outskirts of the beautiful Dedham Vale on the Suffolk/Essex border. I design and create handmade pieces of fused glass art for both the home and garden inspired by the amazing countryside and estuaries found in this part of East Anglia.

My art practice explores our relationship to nature and one another through sculpture and print. Lifestyles, in the western world, have separated us from nature and making by hand, while recent global events highlight the benefits these have to us.
These themes are explored primarily though kiln-formed glass techniques including pâte de verre (glass paste), lost wax casting, photography and print methodologies. Source material often reference historical objects from previous generations of my family or ideas generated on my daily nature walks.
The making process is time consuming and is often fraught due to the complexities of the material. Considerable skills and knowledge need to be amassed with an acceptance that you do not have full control over the outcome. The works use a familiar everyday material to represent forms not normally experienced in glass allowing the viewer to question the object and its meaning.
The process of translating an idea into glass is technically challenging and stimulating. Glass is a contradictory material. It can be both ephemeral and permanent, fragile and heavy, delicate and sharp and can pivot from transparent to opaque. It holds the possibility of literal and metaphorical magnification.

2022
TG Transitions in Kiln-formed Glass –Touring various USA sites until late 2023
Its all in the Technique –National Glass Centre, Sunderland
European Glass Prize 2022- Coburg, Germany
Solo inaugural artist exhibition “Journeys and Horizons” Stourbridge Glass Museum
British Glass Biennale
Collaborations, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, co-curator and exhibitor
40years National Glass Centre Sunderland
2021
American Glass Society Conference
Toyama Glass Prize –Japan
Heijen Glass Competition, China