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Jeff moved to Edinburgh from Washington, DC. He has a Masters’ in glass & architectural glass from Edinburgh College of Art He crrently co-owns Glass Lab Edinburgh, a public access glass studio in Leith.

My practice has often been inspired by landscape , light nature and the natural world. Mould making is a key part to my practice and the organic sculptural forms I create . The possibilities glass also offers in its enumerable forms to portray this, adds to my imagination and inspiration with this medium of endless possibilities. The painterly qualities I imbue in the glass are an accumulation of my painting and earlier decorative painting experience . Although I continue to exhibit annually at sculpture gardens and such like. I feel limited by competitions and applying for certain exhibitions, so I’m looking to expand into new areas and opportunities now. Part of that plan is to extend my making into a new studio combining glass with other materials and staging it in new markets.

My artistic practice is rooted in drawing and how this direct artistic expression documents and communicates my own emotional processes. I translate these two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional glass sculptures though a series of carving techniques I have developed over the past five years.

I was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artists Prize in 2019, has taken part in two residencies in Stockholm and Edinburgh and has exhibited globally, with particular highlight being Emerge Bullseye 2018.

My current work for celebrates the history and beauty of traditional patchwork quilts through blown glass using murrine. These pieces also highlight the reflective and refractive qualities of the glass.
I also work in collaboration with blacksmith Beth Horsley-Frost to create pieces combining forged or folded metal elements with blown glass.

I now sell only through galleries and h/Art, a yearly open studio event where I demonstrate and sell. My current work is embarking glass heads in steel boats.