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I create dynamic glass, experiments, fuse it with other substances, analyses and examines it – rationally, but with empathy. I work with it as if I were conducting an interview, but without the niceties and courteous phrases. That is how the interactive artworks come into being, works which stimulate the emotions and incite interest without pandering to the audience. I perceive glass as a material that serves artists. Nothing more, nothing less. It is the medium through which I tell my stories.
Each year I try to make some different objects than I have made before. I make an experiments to combine glass with chemistry – sodium acetate or blue vitriol, with materials as fiber glass, basalt or basalt fibers, grinding wheels, or I educe my own materials as kind of home made flubbers from glue and borax. Nothing is strange to me I search for different way in this supersaturated world. New materials give me new impulses, ideas, inspirations. In my creations you can find both design pieces and conceptual artworks – original, identifiable, my own.
I resist stagnation, looking for new territories, new approaches and connections in glassmaking.
The Guild of Glass engravers is the only organisation in the UK specifically dedicated to the art of glass engraving.
Membership is worldwide and open to anyone interested in engraved glass, from the most skilled and experienced engravers to those whose interest is purely appreciative. We act as a forum for the discussion of engraving techniques and new developments from around the world. We are also a source of information to the public on all aspects of glass engraving and surface decoration on glass, and advise the growing number of individuals and institutions wishing to commission work.
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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.