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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.

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.