An initial training in figurative painting, printmaking, and calligraphy at Guildford School of Art in the late 1950s proved to be a great base for exploring a wide range of materials and styles.

Currently I work a lot with warm glass, both float and dichroic; often combining these pieces with ceramic, reclaimed and found materials....... I love the vibrancy of light passing through glass, and the extraordinary richness of shape and variety to be found in something so ordinary as a a broken toy or squashed can on the road …. things abandoned, unvalued, lost, changed.....especially toys, partly from the power of their archetypal imagery and also from concern about the huge environmental impact of plastics and oil......the work becomes a metaphor perhaps for survival and re-creation....

For many years I've been developing scanner-photography for fine-art digital prints; subject matter ranges from plant material to the surreal worlds of toys and industrial products.

Occasionally I teach short courses in my Devon studio, and community projects.

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