This is the first year I’ve made fused glass Easter eggs, so maybe I was more focused on this much-anticipated spring event than usual. Or maybe it’s pure coincidence – but with only a week to go until the big day, my beloved henny penny began laying again, after her winter break. I never use…
I am very lucky to live and work at the top of what’s reputedly the highest point in County Monaghan – Mullyash Mountain, just outside Castleblayney. My studio looks down over the county’s famous drumlins for miles around. At this time of year, I am spoiled with regular breath-taking sunsets, as my studio faces west. …
I’m lucky enough to have my studio right beside the kitchen, so even during the tightest lockdown due to the pandemic, I was able to work away. With the forced closure of all of the shops I supply, I decided to take the opportunity to experiment a little in the studio. Drop-out moulds were something…
I previously wrote about being inspired to update my own front door, after the fun of making a bespoke glass panel for clients. Yesterday was the big installation day. As this was an afterthought, and not devised when the door was being installed originally, it already has a double glazed window, and this new piece…
So, last year, I was commissioned to make a front door panel in coloured fused glass for a family. I loved the whole process – adding a few ‘secret’ personal elements that the family could relate to, but that nobody else might notice. It was a wonderful commission. The family were happy, and it had…
I was commissioned to make a commemorative piece of glass to mark a special time in someone’s life. I made a big, visual map of life in glass, featuring all those special people we meet along life’s journey. Before I knew where I was, a new product was born: my Friendship Dangles. They feature layers…
No links to weddings at all, but very true for a new phase in my fused glass work! My beloved little kiln has been joined in my studio, by a big brother kiln, and that has opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me. As I was finding my way around the workings of…
