Mostly mud but also emerging colour.

Suddenly (at last) the two projects I’ve been working on have aligned, my #millefiori have jumped the fence and morphed from flowers into eyes. WIP for Being Woman at @mandellsgallery March-April 2026.

I knocked a carefully sorted thousand #glass flowers onto the floor while spring-cleaning my workbench. A warning not to clean - or a suggestion to mix things up?

Opening the kiln in the morning to remove #glass from the day before: when it’s good it’s very, very good and when it’s bad it’s horrid. Appreciation for @kilncare for my cleverly designed, capacious and reliable Maxi. Find video on my Insta or FB pages.

Joining up the dots: just realised I’ve had this postcard on my workbench since Christmas. More #murrini #millefiori and appreciation for #dutchmasters

Find the video on my Facebook or Instagram pages: Making #glass Millefiori: a meditation and a small winter garden on the workbench. This is a layered and absorbing process with endless variety to be had in the results. The larger-scale process constructs pattern by bundling coloured glass rods together in great clusters.

Experiment and play is the best (and often the only) way into a new year for me. Leading with impulse and colour over words and ideas is my proper reset. To that end I’ve been making a thousand flowers… millefiori: the process of creating complex #glass cane where the pattern runs down the cross-section. Then superheated, stretched, cooled and cut into numerous chips. I should/will show it better in a video when the natural light on my workbench is more generous.

Cure for the January blues - a gem of an exhibition at The Wolsey Gallery @ipswichmuseums A thoughtful and cleverly curated surge of Colour, Shape and Pattern. @uwu_studio_ Lily Hammond’s sketchbooks & bold birds, and an extraordinary model of Millbank Penitentiary (swipe) were particular favourites and it’s on until 22nd Feb.

Medieval winter scape just around the corner on Tuesday, Framlingham castle and mere. All washed away now.

Happy New Year!

Appreciation for the best of 2025, for being able to create with and around so many inspiring people, organisations and places. Hoping everyone gets as much peace or party as they hope for this New Years Eve 🙏

Mildred Holland (let’s use her name) enacted a magnificent restoration of the ancient chancel roof of the church of St Mary the Virgin in nearby Huntingfield between 1859 and 1866. Mildred is referred to as The Lady on the Ladder, The Huntingfield Paintress and the Rector’s Wife and there is a suprising amount of speculation about her corsets and petticoats in the available information. Appreciation for Mildred’s management of her undergarments AND a paintbrush at the same ti

My last workshop of 2025 was today, light work above from the Friday session!

I’m about to teach my final two workshops of 2025, HOWEVER - they make a marvellous gift and are not contingent on final postage dates before Christmas… find out more via the contact page on my website, link in my profile. Find selections of my #glass this December at @designermakers21 at @craftco_southwold and @walsinghamgalleryandframing all destinations for unique and memorable arts and contemporary crafts.

Medicinal winter sunlight and out-of-season seaside: find my #glass in the Christmas Exhibition at @craftco_southwold Upstairs Gallery, overflowing with treasures and treats in #textiles #print #ceramics #wood and #mixedmedia A few minutes walk from the seafront and wide sweep of silver coastline. This lovely show runs until 16th December.

Thanks to everyone who found their way to my Open Studio 🙏 it intrigues me when an overlooked item is seized on with relish. Red and The Wolf are all that remains of a #glass foray into folk tales a LONG time ago, currently having a polish and being packaged up before handover. Perhaps it’s time to go back into the woods.

Winter Open Studio, heading out shortly for Day #2. Thanks to everyone who found me yesterday, do take a look at the site map (swipe) and the directions on my contact page before embarking. I’m happily situated in a quarter part of an ex-piggery - nestled amongst a variety of old farm barns and new buildings. The numbering on site is erratic and can confuse BUT hot drinks and a warm welcome await the explorer. Yew Tree Court is on the A1120 just outside Earl Soham (but before

This weekend #savethedate drop by to see latest #glass work, lovely archives, studio samples and demonstrations. Saturday and Sunday 6th & 7th, 11am - 4pm. Off the A1120 just outside Earl Soham (but before Saxstead Mill) Unit 2, Yew Tree Court, 21 Framlingham Road, Earl Soham, Suffolk IP13 7SG What Three Words: ///various.spell.mural