Artist Approach

 For over 25 years, my art has developed to challenge traditional stained, leaded, fused and mosaic glass practice on both a visual and technical level. Set within this medium, I work closely and collaboratively with my clients, local and international alike, to translate ideas into highly personalized designs that illuminate architectural, corporate, spiritual and residential settings. My conceptual approach to projects is highly collaborative, requiring consideration of the personal, communal, and spatial (both architectural and natural) relationships in the finished work. 

 On site, I work with clients, architects, engineers, and builders to determine the constraints of the space (structurally) and its effect on the artistic (visual and material) aspects of the piece.  Within this foundation, I design in collaboration with the intended audience to understand their interaction with the art, emphasized subjects/themes, and contextual meanings.  This latter stage often engages the existing natural environment and architectural influences, in an attempt to examine the relationship between the physical space and the audience’s perception of aesthetic and theoretical meanings within.

Light is perpetually in motion and breathes life into glass while colour is an abstraction by which colour is revealed.  I design my installations with careful consideration for the changing qualities of light in different times of day and seasons and their impact on colour and space.