Stained Glass

Hello

Welcome to my updated glass page! Here you are going to find out all about what I do when I’m not illustrating.

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I started exploring stained glass as an art form in January 2021 during another gloomy lockdown, and slowly taught myself how to make something out of glass using the copper foiling method. (Also known as the tiffany method because it’s the technique used to make glass tiffany lamps!) I love to learn new things and figure out how to do something and now it’s become a hobby which has bloomed into a business. I now make smaller decorative pieces and glass panels intended for display indoors.

I work making glass pieces in my garden summerhouse studio all year round! I love being outdoors in nature, which inspires a lot of my glass pieces. (Working with glass isn’t really an indoor pursuit if you want to avoid glass splinters!)

I’ve always loved design and shape. That’s why I love working in paper collage, and designing glass pieces is exercising all the same design muscles. Unlike collage, where your biggest studio threat is a papercut, stained glass has lots of hazardous chemicals and safety equipment to consider. It hasn't all been about learning how to design something different, but in fact how to work safely with hazardous materials. I love the challenge of working out how to translate something into a design you can cut into glass, which can be soldered together so that it’s strong and most importantly pretty!

Please enjoy having a browse through my glass portfolio and you can find my glass work for sale here!