Absorb

Absorb: The starting point is the curved piece of metal, top heavy and needed a balance point, found when I welded it to its smaller metal base. Weeks of sketching and thinking as to what the piece was to become. After trying lots of combinations, I eventually decided it needed to grow and absorb its surroundings, it needed height and extra width. It seemed to morph into itself giving me the final sculpture.

Tube Light

My work is very intuitive, leaving me free to start a piece without the pressure of the final outcome. Once I start and I like what the result is I find it takes time to get to the next stage, photographs, combinations, knowing when I feels right. When I started tube light I knew I wanted to slump glass on metal pieces, I had tried before and had failed. I knew I needed thicker glass and to reduce kiln temperatures. I had success with Tube Light, I then repeated the process which to my delight worked.

InEarth

InEarth: I cut one of the bars with my angle grinder out of the ground because I loved the shape, thought it looked electric. Decided to make two more and combine the three. Sketching again and combining the three bars, I used a mold to create the concrete shapes, same size at different angles. InEarth, earth electric, from the earth.

Strike

Double Strike, found metal with stone. Cast glass made, flaws from the cast add really well to the glass cast. Combining the two felt right. Concrete base.

Waiting Ends

Waiting Ends: This sculpture started with a cast glass piece. A wax model is made and covered with a quartz and plaster mold. Wax is steamed, leaving a hollow cavity. Allowing the glass to melt into it in the kiln. I combined the cast glass and rusted metal, with concrete. The second side of the sculpture is concrete and burnt wood, it alongside the glass has a total contrast. Made as separate pieces the Waiting ends came together.

Held

This piece was painstakingly long, my glassed slumped decals broke but I loved the shape they had made, I combined them in the circular concrete giving a weight to the piece, I wanted the glass to look like it was sinking into the concrete. I then sat on my desk for 3 months I was not happy with it….until I sketched and thought about combining the hooks…having them float above the concrete. Seeing it on the wall I’m very happy with the result.