My fascination with glass started with a broken leadlight window in our front door of our bungalow. I took a stained glass evening class to learn how to cut glass and build leadlight windows with the intention of eventually repairing that door.
During that evening class I caught the “glass bug” and really came to love and appreciate the vibrant colour, reflective qualities and the technical intricacies of glass as a medium.

Stained glass gave way to fused glass and I never did fix that door. Instead, I learnt to fuse glass in a kiln. From my home based glass studio, I designed and created miniature pieces of glass art where each individual piece of glass was hand cut and several layers of glass were stacked carefully on top of each other and were heated in my kiln at very high temperatures up to 780C, as part of a process of creating original handcrafted kiln fused glass jewellery.

I'm now heading in a new artistic direction, working with glass powder using a technique called pate-de-verre meaning paste of glass. This process creates three dimensional items in glass without the use of high temperature moulds and the glass powder is fused at around 700C creating kiln formed glass. This technique is a great way to create lightweight pendants for earrings and other jewellery.

Much of the jewellery I make, is inspired both by the qualities of the glass itself and also by the environment around me. If you look carefully you will see that many of my glass pendants and earrings are decorated with elements inspired by nature with tree silhouettes, flowers, insects, and bird life, key elements of my design. I also love to make people smile, so enjoy making jewellery that is fun and just a little bit quirky.

All my items are small and 100% glass.

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