About

My practice as a glassmaker is now mainly centred on warm glass – fusing, slumping and casting.

Initially, work was concerned with the materiality of glass, exploiting its transparency and colour and interaction with light. Subsequently, I began exploring form, surface markings and texture, with particular reference to the way in which different glasses react when they touch. I am interested in lines which make connections but, at the same time, form boundaries

I am also interested in blurring perceptions of the differences between glass and ceramics. I have tried to borrow the opacity and handmade qualities of the ceramic pot, while retaining the vivid colours and highly glazed finish that are associated with glass.

Over the past few years the two strands of inspiration for my glass have been textiles (looking at patchwork and weaving) and nature in the Welsh landscape. Recently these two themes have come together in a new technique I have been exploring, which results in more delicate and sculptural forms. They have a textured, printed fabric-like quality with frayed edges and use images from nature as well as colourful abstract patterns.