The Stunning Renovation of a Legend: Quercus
Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created...
Work that creates Wonder: the beautiful Aeolian in progress
Roots restaurant asked me to design a
suspended glass installation earlier in 2021. Roots is run by Jan and Stacey,
who are passionate about food and art. My studio is not far from Roots, we are
both on the top of a cliff in Southbourne, and it gets breezy here by the sea!
Aeolian references the repeated rolling motion and sound of the rush of...
An astounding collection: The Rise series
Rise is a series of sculptures that stand upright and are characterised by profiles that draw undulating waveforms. The symmetrical waves separate the negative space and the stacked forms. A rhythm is created by the repeated volume and line, and the whole has a taught glass skin that separates the airspace and the mass, washing it in colour, a...
A Centerpiece To Dream of; The Oceania Series
The Vermeer series is a succession of curved relief panels. Their reflective glass surfaces refract the room or the environment so that the viewer’s perception switches between the image and the reflection. Each piece starts as a painting on glass with enamels, which is then fired to fix the pigments into the glass. The glass is then cut and collaged...
Beautiful, Icy and Eco-conscious: The Heal Soap Dish
Heal Soap Dish reuses shattered glass originally produced from sand, a natural, finite resource.
Qualities of material have always fascinated me. Walter Gropius and his mantra, ‘Form Follows Function’, was fundamental to the Bauhaus movement. A development of this is to examine the inherent differences in material and allow the standout...
An Insider Exclusive: The invigorating exploration into Rise 4
Rise 4
The Rise sculptures are a series of works that have grown out of my interest in how matter and energy move and the laws of physics which govern our understanding of the world. Their repeated curves, ascending from the earth towards space, echo the forms of waves of pure energy. They can be seen as sound waves, electromagnetic or heat waves, or...