I’m a Suffolk-based artist working primarily with glass in a tradition known as lampwork or flamework. I flame-sculpt glass to create wearable art, tokens, talismans and my signature totems. My glass tells stories, celebrates detail, colour, light & the beauty of the small. I’m a selected member of The Suffolk Craft Society, where I am manager and content-creator of social media and have also organised and hung exhibitions for the group. I am on the Crafts Council Directory of Makers. I’m also an associate member of Designer Makers 21 by invitation. My current studio is a re-purposed barn in Earl Soham, where I create, teach, exhibit and sell my work. I exhibit widely through the year in group and solo shows; current and upcoming news can be found on my events page. I originally graduated from Loughborough College of Art and Design with a BA Hons in Silversmithing & Jewellery, which I followed with a PGCE from Homerton College, Cambridge University. I taught art at an outer London secondary school before living overseas for a decade in Kenya, Thailand and Singapore, where I taught, worked for NGO's, curated for two galleries, and learned to work with glass. After many years of painting, drawing, digital photography and polaroid manipulation I became fascinated with the idea of working with glass. In 2006 I travelled to New Zealand where I was taught by Micah Lamar at Hoglund Art Glass. I built and worked from home-studios, held solo exhibitions and artist residencies in Thailand and Singapore before returning to the UK in 2010. I recently found out that my maternal great grandfather was a glassblower in a Sunderland factory and enjoyed the synchronicity