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Glass, a paradoxical material at the very basis of my research
Both transparent and opaque, fragile and Tough, stable and unstable… It is an amorphous material that could be considered a solid as much as a liquid.
My sculptures are designed to represent that flow of unstable material. They are forces in movement frozen into time and space like waves caught in the cold.
I like to give the illusion of a fixed time, a moment between what was (a shape in formation) and what will be (the imagination feeding from the blooming of the shape).

Based in South East Scotland, my work has developed from suncatchers and landscapes to work that challenges and raises awareness, often from a feminist perspective. I use the copper foil technique which allows me to include delicate lines and shapes. I draw and design everything myself. This may or may not be related to my dislike of following rules and patterns! My preferred framing material is zinc but I sometimes use lead which gives a more rustic look.

I am a stained glass tutor with Edinburgh Adult Education Department, running beginners’ evening classes in Edinburgh. This allows me to share my passion for glass with an enthusiastic group of learners, and continues to teach me about using and handling glass. I love watching people hold up their finished pieces for the first time and sharing a little of that sense of pride.

My goal is to create pieces that adorn spaces with beauty, provoke thought and inspire change.

I take much of my inspiration from the vibrancy, colour and textures of the natural world.

Having reacently found the elusive process for creating organic vessel forms in a kiln, I am now on the start of a journey into translating my process of creating textured panels into a vessel shape. Interpreting the lanscapes around me into colourations within my nature based forms. Embracing the serendipitous nature of colour control to create wonderful one off sculptures. 2023 is going to be an exciting voyage of discovery.

I use drawing, hand cut stencil techniques and sand carving to create one off pieces of glass art. Blown by Colin Hawkins, my vessels and forms are made from Crystal with either colour overlays or blown colour. Much of my current work is made to commission or for exhibition

Pronouns She/Her
As a mixed media artist, I create installations, sculpture and digital art centered on the idea of impermanence and how it relates to our contemporary human condition. I utilize geometric and abstracted forms of Light, shape, space, movement, and sound to challenge people’s perspective. Incorporating interactive elements into my art allows me to create a specific encounter with the viewer. This encounter is meant to engage and activate a visceral and physical awareness that looks into different facets of the human psyche. I strive to develop an internal and external dialogue of collective identity and awareness by intersecting our spaces of existence within the unknown. The unknown are voids and spaces that we get glimpses of which exist but are not defined. These are the spaces of intrigue and infinite possibility.

Interactive glass puppets Inspired by Mexico’s cultural traditions known as Mojigangas

The inspiration in my work comes from many areas of my life, my architectural training being the basis for my observation of the world around me and informing form and structure in my work.
Light and colour are vital to my work, how they interact with the physical plain is the question that I continually strive to answer.
I am currently working on a project where I have illustrated The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. This forms the basis for my exploration in glass of love, power, sexuality and the human soul.