After being at the top of my game in my packaging career spanning over 30 years, including almost 20 running AVA packaging solutions, a packaging design, development, and project management consultancy and working for some of the world’s top brands and helping start-ups, I fell in love with hot glass in 2012 and changed course to become a glass artist. 

Much of my work is inspired by my expeditions and experiences to remote wilderness locations and seeing the icy mountains, icebergs and oceans. I hand-create statement art glass inspired by my encounters in remote and pristine wild nature using glass and unexpected techniques. 

I love being in extreme wildernesses – especially oceans and ocean life, mountains, ice and sailing or diving. Places like Antarctica where I have sailed, dived with penguins, humpbacks, and icebergs, kayaked, and camped and the Arctic where I have sailed, swam with orca and spotted whales from ribs in rough seas. 

When I make my ice-inspired work, I plunge the 1100°C glass into cold water to crackle and frazzle the surface and give the appearance of ice and fissures.  I then hit it with a hammer to knock off pieces and create crevices and ice erosion effects!  Not your usual techniques with glass for me!