I am an established designer maker with broad experience of working with glass.
My work is represented in five major public collections including the V&A and the Crafts Council collection. For the past nine years I have been living in the far north of Sweden, returning to the UK in 2003.

The extraordinary light phenomenon in the north of Sweden, pristine nature and long Arctic winters has shaped my visual sense. It is the starting point for my presently emerging work. The 'pared down' quality of Scandinavian design and rural culture is also an important influence in my work. This is evident in the use of form, and colour as well as techniques applied in my work. The work is quiet; about light and colour, it is very different from the heavily engraved figurative narrative which defined my earlier pieces. This new work reflects on my experience of a place which is covered in a blanket of snow for six months of the year,a place where the silence is penetrating.

My pieces are free blown, vessel forms which are outside and inside cased with colour. Using 'graal' technique, I cut through layers of colour to reveal the inside colours. Patterns are generated which become integral with the form as the piece is blown into its final shape.

I live on the Welsh Borders close to the Black Mountains with my daughter Signe.