I have been designing & making glass things for 17 years now. I  began with glass painting for friends. Following a stained glass course, with Paul San Casciani in Oxford, my neighbour`s sister gave me a dustbin full of scrap pieces of coloured glass so I was happy as a dragon with a hoard of treasure & spent hours sorting bits.

I made panels for narrowboats,

caravans & a horsedrawn wagon.               After moving to Somerset I did more stained glass with Ian

                                                                   Barton & worked for Shakspeare Glass for a few months as a hot  

                                                                        glass studio  assistant.Then Strode College with Richard Pelham

                                                                                  where I started bead making & fusing.

                                                                           I have just begun engraving.....wonder where this will  lead me ?  

Wherever I can I recycle glass from broken leaded panels, bottles & mirrors into my  work. Also I use broken glass from the beach, flat shells & bits of pottery as well as bits from other glass workers.