Abandoned36"x24"x28"
Flameworked borosilicate glass.
April 2007
Photographed in Bruan Free Church, Caithness, Scotland by the artist
"I often use animal imagery as a means of commenting on mankind's behaviour, as it is a step removed from us, and at the same time comments on our animal nature. Using a comfortable familiarity, beauty, or humour to engage an audience, the work can express ideas that often have a much darker undercurrent than a surface glance might realize."
"Working in clear glass in the flame enables me to create large volume whilst making forms that appear to almost not exist." One can look right through airy figures like a ghost. These qualities permit huge form of seeming insubstance, conveying that which exists but doesn't exist; that which is no more, and the visual manifestation of the intangible; for example faith and emotion.
The specific energies of sacred spaces (only some of which are ecclesiastical), can influence the form of work, and inversely, the work aspires to transform the physical, emotional, and sometimes spiritual experience of its site. Current projects develop sculpture as catalyst for action and inter-action.