My love of nature led me to study the botanical, biological and astral sources of visual inspiration. I explore form, space, material and texture using the purity and fluidity of hot transparent glass and light. Recently I have worked on the theme of microbiology and microscopic worlds.

I have good basic skills within glassblowing, but for over ten years I have focused on flameworking torch. I specialise in mass reproduction component making. Where I innovate is in my ability to replicate components, combined with UV bonding: and this is thanks to my innate patience.

The action of repetition is meditative and it allows me to reach a sense of achievement and a cathartic sense of spiritual completion, which allows an existential dialogue with myself. Time seems to both fly by and stand still.

It would be my very first, large-scale commission, immediately after my graduation. It was a seven-metre-long chandelier with huge, white, hot glass blown balls, tendrils and thousands of tiny spikes, for The Red Mansion Foundation. I called it The Virgin Chandelier.