I have been working with glass for over 25 years. Though the work has evolved over the years the essence of what I’m expressing is more or less the same – an innate curiosity about the human condition. I use landscape motifs along with figurative elements referencing autobiographical fragments of memory to investigate these ideas.
My current research is continuing with the exploration of landscape, both external and internal, including elements of the figure to evoke a mood or an atmosphere. By layering different pieces of painted and sandblasted glass over each other I’m attempting to create new environments – a juxtapositioning of interior and exterior scenarios – to challenge the viewer to question what they see. Using gestural, intuitive mark making I aim to convey some kind of narrative that may be interpreted differently by each viewer.
This new direction allows me to take the glass out of its leaded structure, eschewing the traditional format of a stained glass panel, to allow the image to expand beyond the edges or perimeters of the glass.