From an initial training in painting, printmaking, and calligraphy at Guildford School of Art in the late 1950s, my practice broadened to include 3-dimensional work. Commissioned pieces are usually figurative and easily read while personal exploratory work is mostly abstract.
I glaze ceramic and fuse glass for mosaics and sculpture, often in combination with reclaimed and found materials; the huge impact of waste, plastics and oil on our planet is of major concern. Digital photography is primarily large format macro-images of plants.
Colour has always been a driver, plus the vibrancy of light passing through glass & the extraordinary richness of shape to be found in the ordinary; a fallen flower or plastic toy …. things abandoned, unvalued, changed by time.
Short film by Nick Parker and Tom Law about my glass work for Stone Lane Gardens 2021
JUGGLING, fused glass, Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes. Photographer, Shaun Derioz
