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It is during my first degree in Art History at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, that I developed a particular interesting in mythological iconography and the surrealist movement. I later established my own studio practice and have worked with glass in its kiln glass form for more than a decade after completing a degree in Glass and Ceramics at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, UK. More recently, I completed an MA in Glass at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. I have been a resident artist at Loretta Studios and Gallery in Ottawa, Canada for the past 9 years where I work and teach glass casting.
I am currently working on my final exhibition piece for my degree. My concept for this project is The Development in Medicine, and I will be working with inclusions in glass to demonstrate this. I also enjoy creating pieces in Pate de Verre, playing with form and colour. I love the strength and fragility that glass combines as well as the colours and the reactions you can achieve.
Develop mix media piece Listen to the Trees’ a series of wall mounted pieces created from scorched books that represent the devastation of the woods, the metal and glass components representing small hopes.
This was developed with Mark Powell for Perth Museum & Art Gallery in 2015 in response to the furniture-maker and educator Tim Stead, whose philosophy resonated with our own ideas. This series had taken a part of transFORM exhibition in Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in 2016, touring to Rotheshall in Glenrothes from May 2016.
I’ve been very busy during lockdown mainly making lovely rainbow curves and donating some money from their sales to local NHS charities. I also made some cute little rainbow light catchers for key worker friends of mine but word got round and these have proved extremely popular keeping me and my small kiln very busy every evening.
I have many ideas which will be created in glass in the coming months and I will share these on my website which is under construction now, and also my fb page.