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Watching a bonfire, open hearth or firepit is mesmerising, hypnotic, intoxicating, and transfixing. There is so much to understand about this simple but fundamental chemical combustion. Fire can destroy and allow regrowth when used appropriately. Fire has many ritualistic connotations, such as lighting votive candles. Fire is an example of plasma, one of the four fundamental states of...

Together We Rise comprises over 30 artworks by Royal Society of Sculptors members, presented within Chichester Cathedral. The work responds to the artists’ experience of the pandemic, their resilience, sense of community and collective hope. The exhibition opened at Chichester Cathedral on 27th June and runs until 6th September 2022 During this challenging period, a group of...

Film – David Bird, soundtrack – Joan Tower No Woman is an Island runs until 30th June 2022. No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning female artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.  The Exhibition I am delighted to be...

Unpacking my Archive of work up to May 2022 – an opportunity to share a quick overview of my work to date. Currently, I am engaged in research for a new chapter of work. In doing so, I unpacked a part of my archive to best understand my linear progression to date and provide context to new developments. Archive of the Natural World Lichen suspended in the kitchen with...

No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning women artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.  I am delighted to be included in this exhibition, curated by Jacquiline Creswell, at the Vanner Gallery, which brings together mid-career women artists in...

Together We Rise comprises over 25 artworks by Royal Society of Sculptors members, presented within Chichester Cathedral. The work responds to the artists’ experience of the pandemic, their resilience, sense of community and collective hope The exhibition will open at Chichester Cathedral on 27th June, and runs until 6th September 2022 During this challenging period, a group of...

Quercus Edition 3m tall, an edition of 8 Sculpture construction system which is durable and kinder to the planet. December 2021 Quercus Edition explores the characteristics of the oak leaf, which have Golden Section and Fibonacci proportions, and the sculptures rotate through the golden angle as they rise upwards optimistically. They embody spiritual and geometric principles which...

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 primitive vaulted spaces which are natural...

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 the wind, and the waves of the sea which...

Rise are a series of sculptures which stand upright and are characterised by profiles which draw undulating wave forms. The symmetrical waves separate negative space and the stacked forms. A rhythm is created by the repeated volume and line, and the whole has a taught glass skin which separates the airspace and the mass, washing it in colour, a painted response in glass enamels. The...