Archives: Artists

The combination of studio practice and philosophical research for developing recent ideas has pushed me to explore the relationships we share with our physical realities and the ability of objects to evoke emotional responses from those who experience them. Through the use of kiln cast glass and found objects, my recent works have been focussed on exposing the interwoven relationship between the physical world around us and our internal minds, looking at themes of hidden narratives, memory, identity and space as an extension or reflection of oneself. My work ranges in scale from smaller experimental artefacts to larger cast glass pieces to be used within an installation setting.

I am currently working on a series of work inspired by microscopic images of plants and creatures of the land and sea. This work is created using a new glass technique of fusing intricately, lamp-worked glass cane through Pate de Verre to create delicate interpretations of the microscopic, natural, world.

Fused glass trees, flowers, seascapes, beaches, decorations, suncatchers, coasters, tealight holders, lantern panels, greetings cards and some quirky items.

At the moment I’m doing a lot of traditional glass painting and some casting, using mainly Bullseye glass. I’m also honing my cold-working techniques.

Virus pandemics aside, I mainly teach week day and weekend courses. I love sharing my passion for glass with other people and showing them how to make beautiful things too!

I also make gorgeous glass giftware, which I sell from the studio, through my website, https:\www.gorgeousglassgifts.co.uk
and also on Etsy, at
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/GorgeousGlassGifts

If you’re interested in booking a class in stained glass, glass fusing, casting or glass appliqué, have a look at our main website, https://www.creativeretreatsandholidays.co.uk

My practice is driven by a search for expression of ideas and personal narratives but in the course of which I have come to refine several key kiln-forming techniques that I consider to bear a distinctive individual stamp. My artistic language involves the use of found forms or textures transposed into strange contexts using mould-making and transfer processes
I am perhaps known for the large-scale glass constructions such as The ‘Brickman figure” in the V and A Museum, made in what I describe as ‘Glass patch-working”. In this method I am slump forming large sheets of Artist glass that are then cut up, edge-worked and stitched together using metal wire or links. These works are very time consuming to complete and today are mostly reserved for commissions or special exhibitions, but as an offshoot I run a number of workshops where recycled sheet glass and bottles becomes the raw material for collage and larger scale sculptural form building
The other process that I have pioneered and refined is the use of cores or negative forms in casting. This technique is featured in Angela Thwaites’s Mould Making for Glass (pub A.C Black 2012) and involves the pre-casting of a core form that is suspended within a wax outer form that becomes the outside skin of the glass block. This method enables the viewer to perceive ‘two forms in one” and creates a conversation in symbolism and spatial relationship that is unique to the medium of cast glass.