I have been a fused glass artist since 2017 and honed my craft through various courses either in person or online. I was inspired to become a fused glass artist after having seen Sioban Jones’s work at Art in Action at Waterperry. I subsequently did one of her courses in Worthing and loved it. I now have a studio at home and have a lot of fun “playing”! I mainly do fused glass but have also ventured into stained glass and cast glass more recently.

Much of my fused glass art is inspired by nature and flowers are a particular love of mine. The challenge of recreating them in glass either in 2D, as a picture, or 3D, as garden art, is exciting. I have a range of large and small garden art flowers – poppies, daisies, lilies and buttercups which can be “planted” in your garden and provide colour all year round or displayed in your home and look particularly stunning if intermingled with real flowers. I also have some bright flower decorations to hang in your window along with some stand-alone flowers which have their own stands to cheer up any windowsill.

Colour is another passion of mine and beautiful sunsets have inspired my pendant collection. My favourites are the purples although the orange hues come a very close second. Each pendant is constructed of three layers of glass and requires two to three kiln firings to complete but remains elegant. To this collection I have added seascape pendants which capture the essence of holidays by the seaside.

In addition, I make various dishes and platters in a range of wonderful bold and vibrant colours. These come under the useful and useless (display only!) categories but always bring joy. They range in size from small ring dishes (approx 8x8cm) to large round bowls with a diameter of 29cm and all sizes and shapes in between. They can be used for a variety of functional purposes or to bring colour to a room.

More recently I have been doing some casting a very long complicated process of making a 3D object in glass. It uses the lost wax process which involves making a mould, using it to make a wax model and then making a refractory mould from the wax model. Steaming the wax out before melting the glass into the mould. This glass piece then needs refining and polishing. The end results are very rewarding and I now have a lovely collection of glass “eggs” and some glass lemons.

My work is on sale during Artweeks and at a local gallery. Enquiries and commissions are welcome!