“Blade like edges and points, perfect curves, complex volumes, the contradiction of a form, at once beautiful and harmonious, challenging and provocative, a hidden point of balance, the form is the signifier.

I work with the absolute clarity of the optical glass to give a view of the world, whilst the techniques I use, distort, divide, compartmentalise and sometimes obscure observations and questions. Smoothed and polished surfaces, textures, surface mark making, and deep linear carving are the final layer of language. All must finally come together to inspire the observer, to stop, look and question, feel and respond. If only for a moment, to look from a slightly different perspective.”

I use a wide variety of techniques depending on the object I am making. These include slumping, fusing and texture firings, open and lost wax casting. With these kiln processes I use a wide range of different glasses, including float, colour sheet and optical.

I also employ many different cold working techniques, working with hand held electric and pneumatic tools, at the lathe, with a milling machine, an engraver and sandblasting. This gives me the ability to affect the glass in many ways, working subtly on the surface with texture and mark making, or carving deeply into a piece. The shading of different levels of polishing also adds a layer of subtly to the language of the mark making.