This has turned into a ‘Friday the 13th’ sort of piece. It seems like everything that could go wrong has gone belly-up. I’m not sure why, other than the big,…
Glass Artist & Illustrator
Glass Artist & Illustrator
Eclectic, original, and occasionally humorous, my art work is inspired by history, mythology and folklore.
This has turned into a ‘Friday the 13th’ sort of piece. It seems like everything that could go wrong has gone belly-up. I’m not sure why, other than the big,…
These animals were drawn from the book Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction by George Bain, a marvellous work with many images from the Book of Kells, the Book of…
This is my first tile mosaic project, a tv stand. The design is an Adobe Illustrator vector graphic, worked over a reference photograph found on the internet. I originally planned…
I finally finished the Queen of the Night panel. If you’re interested in the history of original piece that inspired this, see the Wikipedia article. This image isn’t great because…
A friend gave me an excellent book, A2Z and More Signs (ed. Julian Rothenstein) that inspired me to create some Christmas cards loosely based on Modernist designs. I chose a…
The base for these are clear recycled glass church candle holders – they have three little ‘feet’ underneath to keep the candle up & off the table top, presumably to…
The collagraph plates before inking. The prints reveal the woodgrain well, but the press didn’t have enough pressure on most of them to be properly embossed. I prefer a strongly-embossed…
Not entirely digital, of course. I hand-drew the furniture using a catalogue as reference, then scanned and digitised them. These were originally drawn for an HNC project several years ago,…
Spent a day with my friend Sue trying out the printmaking facilities at the local arts centre. The press, a beautiful antique traditional press, was unlike any I’ve used before….
This piece was accepted into the 2008 summer student open exhibition at South Hill Park. Another piece, a roundel with a pair of large quartz crystals embedded was also accepted…
These collages are from our first morning’s work at the West Dean mixed media course in early June. Jane, our tutor, gave us the task of looking at things differently….
The Queen of the Night’s body cut out in a watery red-orange glass. Up to this point, I’m mostly following the pattern made on the computer. I had to make…