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I use traditional lead came and copper foiling techniques, making a wide range of work including large scale garden sculptures. I design and create my own ideas, as well as responding to gallery led demand and commissions, including work for some National Trust shops.

Training
I love working with stained glass and have attended numerous glass courses in a number of different colleges over the last 20 years including several at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland .

Recent exhibitions include major show at Liuli Glass Museum Taipei and ‘Salon of Art and Design, New York with Adrian Sassoon. Colin is currently working on a major museum commission.

My work is inspired by landscape. I love exploring the rugged cliffs and other geological sites of Britain. It is there I am able to connect with the play of light on the natural world. My process begins when I am faced with the elements and the history of the land – the apparent as well as the unseen forces at work. The feel of the place interacts with my imagination. Glass, as a material to cast, is irresistible to me. I am inspired to design and make sculpture that interacts with light. I use the properties of transparency, refraction and reflection to create an inner world within an outer form. The process of making – from concept to realization – allows for the unexpected to take place. This can be exciting and often leads to new discoveries that inform and ensure the work is evolving. Most of my work are one-off pieces, many in private collections in the UK and abroad

Semi retired from teaching and making with occational work as an Museum Assistant at The Red House Glass Cone.

I specialize in a technique often called flameworking, lampworking or scientific glassblowing and within my current body of work I have started to investigate a little explored combination of scientific glassblowing and Neon sign industry skills.The resulting work is a unique combination of illuminated sign and scientific glassblowing skill.

Currently working on incorporating and expressing the ultimate fluidity of the digital mode within the physical constraints of the medium, by way of making moulds for kiln forming from 3D printed textures, and text.