Artist working across materials
to examine our world.
Join me in exploring our world through glass sculpture, screen printing, ceramics and mixed media. Untidy, moody and sometimes confrontational, much like the people and society it reflects.
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This month: Faces that reveal, the sex life of plants, and a glass poster that shouts for our salvation.
Masks We Wear
An old man’s face, carved by time but far from finished. Deep lines, a weathered brow and a full beard emerge in layers of olive, moss and golden green, like lichen on ancient stone. He isn’t tired. There is still life in him, still fire behind the stillness. This is the mask of experience: calm, unflinching, and earned rather than given.
Four-colour enamels are screen printed and layered across two sheets of glass. The depth between the layers gives the face a quiet three-dimensionality that shifts as light moves through it. The glass stands on a hardwood plinth, ready to display on a shelf, mantel or sideboard.
Details: Four-colour enamel screenprint on two layers of glass, hardwood plinth. Glass size 30 x 23.5 cm (11.8 x 9.3 in). Handmade by the artist.
Nothing in nature is subtle when it wants something. Flowering plants have spent millions of years refining the art of seduction, and the Bird of Paradise is one of its most flamboyant results: blades of searing orange, a flash of violet, and a rigid green perch engineered to take the weight of a visiting bird. Every colour is a come-on and every angle is deliberate. The flower is built entirely around one encounter.
This sculpture treats that encounter as desire made solid. The bract, the structural green hull that bears the bird, is cast in dense, dark glass. Above it the petals are fused in sharp, translucent blades, flaring like a display that can’t be ignored. Each element is hand finished and bonded, so the whole piece looks like it is mid-gesture, caught at the moment of attraction.
Part of the Sex Life of Plants series, an exploration of the intimate, strategic and sometimes ruthless relationships between plants and their pollinators.
Details: Cast and fused glass, hand finished and bonded. [Add dimensions, weight, edition and year.]
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