I am most well-known for pâte de verre – casting glass with small particles. You can work with that in a number of different ways, it’s very adaptable. But I am also interested in imagery; I like to screen print on glass, and I use textiles as well.

I like teaching my techniques and seeing where people take them, since everyone has their own way of expressing themselves. It’s also nice to have people in your studio sharing your enthusiasm and expressing their own enthusiasm for your techniques.

I don’t think anything is easy about making. I have to feel passionately to put myself through the pain and expense of making the work, so you have to really, really want to do it, and I do – 90 percent of the time!

It refers to the skill you have honed. Nobody comes out of art college fully formed, it takes you a long time to get where you are. It’s this idea of continuing to develop and hone your craft. A relationship between maker and object, and for the object to have integrity.