I have very excited to be holding my very first solo show at the Menier Gallery from 4th-12th March with a private view on Wednesday the 3rd of March.

The opening times are 10am-6pm Monday to Saturday and the gallery is in Bankside, minutes from London Bridge station.

The show is being held in association with the charities Paintings in Hospitals and the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award.

Do email me at alex@alex-r.com if you'd like an invitation to the private view or for more information about the show.

See previous exhibitions listed here

Once again I find myself here on the cusp of the new year wondering what happened to the last twelve months??! It feels like I was only just writing about my plans for 2009 and here we are a year later! Some of those plans wonderfully have come to fruition, yet some remain as frustrating testaments to my lack of time... one of my new year resolutions is to employ an assistant! I am looking forward to 2010 as a year where I will be moving forward in my personal work, something which is hard when the phone is constantly buzzing with orders to fulfill. However 2010 marks five years since I graduated so it seems an appropriate time to reflect back on my work over this period. In this spirit, I will be having my first ever solo exhibition in the Menier Gallery in March, something that I am incredibly excited about. The show is called "Work and Love" and it will chart my journey over the last five years, including both personal work and production pieces. There are further plans for two other important exhibitions in April and May, details of which will be posted in the next newsletter.

Read more about the Menier Gallery here

In March next year the Menier Gallery will be hosting my first solo show 'Work and Love'. I'm terrible when it comes to titling work, and coming up with a title for the show has been even more problematic. Since the summer I have been reading all sorts of books about neurology and psychology as research for my residency, and the solution to the problem came to me while reading "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" by the neurologist Oliver Sachs. I came across a quote which is often (albeit probably wrongly) attributed to Freud: 'Love and work are the cornerstones of humanness' This phrase hit a chord with me, as my waking life over the last five years (and there has not been much sleeping time!) has been almost exclusively about the pursuit of love and work. My main struggle as an artist is finding the balance between my desire to express myself through my art and the glasswork I must produce to earn a living; on a personal basis my struggle is striving for a balance between work and home life (I do live in a glass studio, after all!). The title 'Work and Love' encapsulates these ideas, but also seemed to fit with the experiences of the patients I worked with on the hospital residency as the two strongest factors that helped patients on their recovery was the love of family and friends and the motivating force of work.
Read the exhibition press release here

After the rush of Christmas orders, I've finally been able to focus on the making of the lightbox for the National Hospital of Neurology. The piece is inspired by the neuroimagery of MRI brain scans, and I hope it will transform imagery that may hold negative associations for the patients into a beautiful patchwork of colour and texture. The design is divided into a 25 part grid with each part representing one of the patients I met during my residency there. A large part of my time was spent talking with them about their experiences and hearing their stories in whatever way they wanted to tell them to me. Imagery representing these stories is painted on the pieces around the central discs, with some patients having contributed their own drawings for the design. The emerging themes of the artwork encompass love and work, family and home life, food and exercise - all the good things in life.
See other bespoke work here

I have been very busy over the last few weeks sending out orders for Christmas to galleries and shops around the UK. I'll also have work in three gallery exhibitions over the Christmas period:

6 Nov - 10 Jan 10 .... 'Christmas Crackers'
Millenium Gallery, Sheffield

14 Nov -24 Dec 09 .... Mixed Christmas Show
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge

28 Nov - 17 Jan 10 .... 'Effervescence IV'
West Dean Gallery, West Sussex

My work will also be featuring in a special Christmas window at Bristol boutique 'Perfectly Posh' which will display of one hundred glass stars. Also on sale here is a bespoke range of Alex R hearts in giftboxes in all the popular designs but in unusual colours.

See previous exhibitions listed here

My residency is drawing to a close at the end of this week. Three months seemed like more than enough time when I started, but it has gone very quickly. However I've achieved a lot in the time using different materials and activities to engage the patients and staff. Some of the sessions have been individual projects such as the making of the Memory Bowls (below), which patients take home with them as a reminder of their stay in the Rehab Unit.

Other projects have been collaborative pieces with the aim of creating a sense of community in Unit and involve a greater number of patients and staff. 'The Rehab Tree' (above), which is the current project, was made out of clay by the patients who inscribed words into the bark of the tree to express their feelings about their experience in hospital. The making of the group artworks, such as the Tree or the huge Clock we made for the Day Room, have invoked a palpable sense of ownership and allow patients to leave their mark on the hospital.

Read more about another group piece, the Rehab Clock here

It's been a long time in the making but I have finally finished an incredibly time consuming project to make a glass mosaic wall for a walk-in shower area. All the pieces for the wall were made using a combination of clear, gold and black glass, which were handpainted with gold and copper before fusing together. The tiles were laid on a plaster bed in the kiln which I had worked into to create a textural surface in the glass causing it to glint and sparkle with reflected light.

The overall design is intended to evoke the idea of flowing water so it was important that the lines all connect but appear to be random. The biggest technical challenge of this project was gettting all the pieces to fit together exactly within the space (taking account of the shower head and two water jets) but without looking like there were any obvious join lines.
See other bespoke work here

I'm already 2 months into my residency at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. I can't believe how fast the time has gone, but all the patients I started working with at the start of the project have now gone home. It has been amazing to see some patients, who arrived in wheelchairs, leave the rehabillitation unit on their two feet. However for others the rehab process is also about coming to terms with long term impairment to their speech or their movement.

As part of my work with them, we have worked on various activities but a favourite seemed to have been the making of a huge clock for the Unit. This activity particularly captured the imaginations of the patients who each decorated a number with sparkly glass pieces. Our clock challenges preconceptions that time drags in hospital. In the making and the using of the clock, we've demonstrated that time spent in hospital can instead be used to tap into creativity as part of the recovery process.
Read more about the residency here

I spent the first week of August in the lovely surroundings of West Dean College teaching a new combined course in both stained glass and kiln-formed glass for Summer School.

This was an incredibly intensive week both for the students and for myself, and I am absolutely sure that of all the summer school courses, the students on my course worked the hardest! It was all worth it though, as they made some beautiful glass panels (left), which were a riot of colour and texture.

The eight leaded panels were constructed almost entirely from glass pieces that students made in the kiln. This course was a bit of a balancing act for me to make sure all the kiln work was done in time before teaching the stained glass element, as well as ensuring the glass ended up the right size for leading it all together. However with a lot of hard work and a few late nights, we did it!
Read more about the West Dean Summer School here

'Made To Think' is a new show at the West Dean Gallery (formerly the Sussex Barn gallery) which features my work. The exhibition will cover a variety of media but the common thread is that the exhibitors all teach at West Dean College. I've taught at West Dean for three years and it continues offer a fantastic ever-changing programme of teaching, so I was excited to recommend my friend and Teepee Glass colleague Brett Manley to West Dean. She has been taken on to teach cast glass there and her work will also be included in 'Made To Think'. The exhibition opens on 30th July, with three private views in late July and August, and it will run until 6th September.
See the full invitation for 'Made To Think' here

I've spent the last few weeks working with glass powders to create a range of dishes and coasters especially for the National Gallery. They approached me to develop a bespoke range in response to the new exhibition "Corot to Monet", a fresh look at the 19th Century landscapes from the National Gallery collection. I created four designs for both the dishes and the coasters which were based on some of the Impressionist landscapes. My brief was to vary the tonal intensity in each set of designs, from subtle to bold, which has meant each piece is totally unique. It was like creating one hundred little works of art on glass. See the results in the National Gallery Shop until 20 September.
Read more about the exhibition here

My third time exhibiting at Pulse in Earls Court One was a mixed experience. The show was the quietest I've ever seen it, in terms of numbers of visitors to the show and the quantity of orders I took over the three days. It seems the recession has well and truly hit the home and gift market... however I was secretly relieved at not being knee-deep in orders by the end of the show, as I have a huge amount of other work coming up this summer and have been slightly panicking about it!

A few weeks after the show I got a phone call from a very special buyer who I had not spoken to at the show as, bizarrely, she said that every time she had come to my stand I had crowds of people on it... that was certainly not my memory of Pulse this year! Anyway, other than referring to her as a "special buyer" I can't reveal any more about this right now as we are currently in discussions about a commission for her company, but it is very exciting! Hopefully if all goes well, I will have some great news about this in the coming months.

I have been busy preparing for my residency at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. This residency is part of my commitment as the winner of the Alexandra Reinhardt Memoral Award and I shall be using my time there to do the research and preparation work for an installation piece that I shall be making for the Neurorehabililtation Unit at the hospital.

Between June and September I shall be spending two days a week at the Rehab Unit, working with the patients and learning more about the effects of Multiple Sclerosis, stroke and spinal injury on the brain. I'm nervous about working with patients who may be very physically impaired, but it will no doubt be an eye- opening experience and I hope it will feed into and inform my final piece of work - a large wall hung lightbox which will be installed permanently in the Hospital at the start of next year.

Read more about the Alexandra Reinhardt Award here

This May I am taking part in the Dulwich Festival for the second time and I will be one of over one hundred artists opening up their studios and houses to the public over two weekends (9th/10th May and 16th/17th May). My 'House of Glass' will be open 11am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday.

I will be using the ground floor studio as a sale area for smaller gift items and bargain pieces including one offs, slight seconds and discontinued ranges. Upstairs larger pieces will be on display including wall panels, bowls, lightboxes and sculptural pieces. Only two floors will be open this year as the third floor is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment, including a new bathroom featuring a wall of Alex R handmade tiles - but you'll have to wait for next year's Open House to see that!

See details of the Dulwich Festival Open House trail here

Until now I have only ever done major trade shows in London, but the British Craft Trade Fair has been a show that's been often recommended to me.

This year I took the plunge and decamped up to Harrogate for four days to take part. I had a fantastic stand right in the entrance to the Yorkshire Showhall and met some great new customers, particularly shops and galleries from the north of England, who may not have come down to the London shows.

However the part I enjoyed most of all was sharing an apartment in Harrogate with my friend Amanda Simmons - with whom I was at Central Saint Martins - and each evening after the show we had long chats to catch up with all the glass gossip and reminisce about our student days! Amanda, who works under the name Corsock Glass, also did really well at the show and was highly commended by the judges for her beautiful glasswork.

Read more about the British Craft Trade Fair (including Amanda's award) here

Slumdog Millionaire swept the board at the Oscars in January, and as a result everyone seems to have gone Bollywood mad! My Global Treasury Lightboxes made their way into the Times supplement this weekend because one of the series was originally inspired by the colour palette of vintage Bollywood movie posters.

The 'Bollywood' lightbox is the one on the right, but they also included an image of the Aztec box on the left. It is a timely piece of editorial as I am about to stop this range as a product line. From April they will no longer appear as a product but if you would like to have a Global Treasury lightbox of your own, it can still be commissioned as a bespoke piece.
Read about the Global Treasury range here

The recession is obviously worrying for small businesses and having done a number of trade shows in London in the last couple of years, it was with trepidation that I set up at Top Drawer Spring this year. At the last minute I was offered a substantial extra space next to me which had not been taken - a worrying signal that even large businesses like Clarion are feeling the pinch. However it was good for me - it meant I had a huge L-shaped stand something I'd happily have every time if I could!

The show was a success - though not the knockout that it was last year, but then I guess we'll all have to wait a while longer for the economy to get back on its feet. My Bloom Bowls sold well as well as the inevitable rush of hearts being bought for Valentine's Day. A warm welcome to the many stores and galleries who ordered from me at the show, as well as welcome back to those who reordered!
Read more about the Bloom Bowl range here

I feel like I've barely recovered from all the hard work of last year and here I am starting it all again for 2009!

All sorts of plans are afoot for the year ahead. I have trade shows booked for January, April, June and September and this year I would like to squeeze in a few more consumer shows too. I will certainly be hosting another Open Studio event in May, as well as a new Christmas Open Studio in December. I will have my work in a number of exhibitions in London and around the country, kicking off with the 40cm2 show which has moved to the Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral.

On the commission front, I have another school project coming up as well as a couple of ongoing private commissions and I'm still waiting to hear if I get the big one - a series of three glass installations in a Portsmouth hospital. I will be teaching two new courses this year at West Dean College in March and August. Also changes are already being made to my website and you can expect to see a brand new shop section on the website in early 2009.
See upcoming events for 2009 in listings

This week I have two more Christmas shows opening. On Thursday I'll be showing at the Museum of London for one day only as part of their Late programme. The Museum will be staying open after hours for visitors to wander round, relax with a drink to some live music and shop for unique handmade gifts.

Also starting this Thursday is TP2+1 which is the second show by Teepee Glass at the SE1 Gallery in London Bridge. I won't be able to make the private view in the evening, but do go along to enjoy a glass of wine with my fellow Teepee artists between 6pm and 8.30pm or come and see me in the gallery on Friday the 5th or 19th as I will be holding the fort on those days from 11am till 6pm.

There are two other dates for your diary as we will be hosting some very special talks at the gallery. On Friday 12 Dec, the inimitable Peter Layton will be making his way over from London Glassblowing to give a talk about contemporary glass. On Friday the 19th we will be joined by two guest speakers, artist Angela Thwaites and renowned glassblower and gallerist Adam Aaronson.
Read more about the speakers and the TP2+1 show here

My new Bloom Bowls have gone down well with the public at the Spirit of Christmas show last month, so I couldn't resist showing a sneak preview of the bowls before they go up officially on the website in January.

The perfect size for nibbles, the Bloom Bowls are very cute little dishes in a rainbow selection of colours. The seven floral designs are printed onto the glass in either black or gold but other colours will be available soon. Designs include Rose, Peony, Lily, Poppy, Fuchsia, Hydrangea and Chrysanthemum.

A bowl presented in a giftbox will retail at £18, and if you just can't wait to get your hands on one before the New Year, come along to the Teepee Glass show at the SE1 Gallery or the Museum of London show at the start of December where a small selection will be on sale.

More about the Teepee show here or download an invite to Late at the Museum of London here

My long awaited giftboxes have finally arrived and I'm delighted with them! I'm usually the one sending out big cartons full of goodies, so for once it was thrilling to be the one to open up the carton.... who'd have thought anyone could get so excited about a load of cardboard boxes?!! But I have put a lot of thought into designing them so that they can contain various items (including products that still only exist as a twinkle in my eye!) to make the perfect giftset for a loved one..

I'm very excited to be launching some of these new giftsets at The Spirit of Christmas show as they will make great pressies for Christmas. In a giftset one can choose to have 3 glass hearts, 3 glass stars or alternatively a set of 4 coasters (either Damascus Rose or Pinstripe). My new Bloom range of small screenprinted bowls with floral imagery will also fit in to make a lovely gift.

See details of the giftsets for glass hearts and glass stars

The new notonthehighstreet.com Christmas catalogue is out now on and Alex R is one of four small businesses specially featured in the catalogue as part of its sponsorship by O2.

The catalogue is a fantastic collection of unique gifts from small British businesses which all trade on nothonthehghstreet.com. I have been involved with notonthehighstreet.com since its inception and so it is great to be promoted in this way. It's also nice to see the studio so tidy!

My glass stars also appear in the Decorate! pages of the catalogue which display beautiful festive Christmas decorations. The catalogue is being sold as a supplement with this month's House & Garden magazine. Alternatively follow the link below if you would prefer to have a free copy of the catalogue sent directly to your door.

See the feature in my press coverage or request a catalogue at notonthehighstreet.com

I'll be showing at the Spirit of Christmas Fair ar Olympia at the beginning of November. The Spirit of Christmas brings together over 600 companies hand-picked by House & Garden magazine for their quality and originality.

I will be one of a handful of designer-makers to be featured in the British Designers Gallery, a dedicated area to showcase aspiring new designers at the Fair.

This is a consumer event so I'm looking forward to selling direct to the public which is, after all, one of the best ways of getting feedback on my work. This will be a great opportunity for me to launch my new product lines: I have been wielding my printing squeegees to create a small collection of screenprinted pieces which which I am really excited about. Also on show will be the old favourites such as the Bejewelled Bowl, pictured right.

Read more about the British Designers Gallery on the Spirit of Christmas website by clicking here

September sees a multitude of events happening around the city under the umbrella of the London Design Festival. To coincide with the last day of the Festival, Craft Central are holding a One Day Sale featuring ten UK designers that they have cherry-picked to represent the best in contemporary craft. I will be the only glass designer on show and will be bringing a good selection of work, with all pieces sold at discounted prices of up to 30% off.

Prices will range from £8 for my glass stars (normally £12) which make fantastic Christmas decorations to £165 for a lightbox (which represents a huge £70 saving on the normal price). I'll also be bringing lots of glass butterflies which make great presents under the £25 mark, as well as some gorgeous glass bowls for those who have a bit more to spend on a really special gift. Finally, I'm hoping to show some new product lines which will be on sale at a special introductory price.
The One Day Sale runs from midday to 7pm on Tuesday 23rd September.
For Press Release click here . . . . To download invitation click here

The summer holidays are fast approaching and that will mean a busy programme of teaching. I'm looking forward to teaching the next 'Intricate Surfaces' course at West Dean College in July. This course is always popular and there are no places left this time round, but details of the next one in the Autumn will be coming soon. I also teach a weekly course at BACES in Kilburn Park which comes to an end this week and I'll be running a 2 day taster course for the Summer School in 'Making Bowls and Beads'.

As well as my college teaching, I am now holding private courses for adults and workshops for children (age 8+) at The Glass Studio. This is a great opportunity to learn about glass fusing in the creative atmosphere of a working studio. As groups are smaller than in college courses this is a really intensive learning experience, as well as being a lot of fun.

More details: West Dean . . . .BACES . . . The Glass Studio

This summer my glass will be on show in various galleries. Following hot on the heels of the Spring Collection, the SDC Gallery invited me back to take part in the current exhibition Enchanted, which sees the work of 38 designer-makers (including 6 glass artists) displayed in their Shoreditch space. From Shoreditch to Stafford, the Shire Hall Gallery will be showing a number of my Bollywood Lightboxes (shown left) and Bejewelled Bowls in their new exhibition Inspired by Bollywood, which promises to be an exciting show of all things Bollywood, from vintage posters to costume to film.

Finally the long awaited follow up to the last show by the British Society of Master Glass Painters, the 40cm2 exhibition returns to the Cochrane Gallery in which 75 members of the Society will be showing their glass panels. My panel continues my current obsession with butterflies, and as one of the hanging committee I got a sneak preview of the show so I know that mine are not the only butterflies in the show! This is a fabulous exhibition showing a huge range of styles and techniques which is not to be missed in London before it moves to Ely Cathedral later in the year.
More details for Enchanted here ... for Inspired by Bollywood here ... for 40cm2 here

Pulse 2008 was an interesting experience for me, not least because of the length of the stand I took. Managing a six metre stand on my own for three days was certainly a challenge but it all went swimmingly and the extra space allowed me to set up my stand with more of a gallery look with plinths down the length. Even better, I had space to set up a little work area - what a luxury! The show generally seemed quieter and the dreaded words "credit crunch" were bandied about, however happily my order book was looking healthy by the end of the show.

My new Damascus Rose range of screenprinted bowls, dishes and coasters went down very well (more information about this new range coming soon!). In the show I made a feature of The Butterfly Collector panels and they have now been sent to selected stores from Adelaide, Australia to Florida in the US. A warm welcome to all the new buyers who made orders from me!
For more details of The Butterfly Collector panel click here

Pulse is a trade show being held at Earls Court for the sixth year running which has earned a reputation for being the place to discover brand new suppliers, ideas and talent that simply cannot be seen elsewhere.

This will be my second time showing in the Launchpad area at Pulse, and this time I have taken an extra long stand to showcase Alex R - Glass Art.

I will be displaying my vessels on plinths this time round and making more use of the walls to show lightboxes and glass lighting which have always been part of my product ranges but which I rarely show. I am also hoping to show an exciting new range of screenprinted vessels based around a damask design which will be hot out of the kiln!

Trade buyers should already have received invites to visit me at at my stand (LP34) which is in the Launchpad area.

For more details see www.pulse-london.com

Over two weekends in May (10/11th and 17/18th May) the doors of The Glass Studio will be opened to the public for the first time as part of the Dulwich Festival. As well as the studio, the rest of the house will be open, with rooms on three floors filled with glass. Pieces on show will be mainly from Alex R, but fellow Teepee Glass artists Pippa Stacey, Brett Manley and Maria Fagan will also be exhibiting.

In the studio there will be a myriad display of smaller items including decorative hangings, tiles, coasters and a sale of slight seconds bowls. Ten colourful lightboxes will be casting their light on the staircase to the first floor, where visitors will see installations of glass in two windows. We will be pulling out all the stops and covering every surface in the sitting room with glass bowls and platters, while the walls will show a display of lightboxes and panels.

Hanging in the stairwell to the second floor will be a huge vintage chandelier adorned with some Alex R glass, in keeping with the 1970's architecture of the house. Two bedrooms will be open upstairs: the dark bedroom will show a couple of illuminated sculptural pieces, while the light bedroom will contain an installation of glass butterflies.

10-11 / 17-18 May: 11am-6pm Enjoy a free glass of wine with us. Download tickets here

Even if the weather's not that brilliant this year, summer will be coming to The Glass Studio in the form of more colourful butterflies. I've started developing my popular hanging glass butterflies into a product better suited if you only have wall space. The resulting wall panel, called 'The Butterfly Collector' for obvious reasons. There are three sizes: the small panel displays a single glass butterfly, the medium panel sets three complimentary butterflies together and for those who want to splash a bit of cash on a really special wallpiece there is the large panel with nine butterflies.

Each butterfly I make is totally unique due to the specially designed continuous moulds I use. This means not only will you never get two butterflies which are exactly the same, but the panels will also all be completely individual. The colour combinations can be customised to suit your interior decoration, but usually I make sure that the panels display a mix of colours. Each frame is made from gloss white perspex with a front panel of glass to keep the butterflies clean. I am making wall panels in limited editions of thirty for each size, so order one before they get snapped up!

For more product information on The Butterfy Collector click here

In February I received a last minute invitation to exhibit at Form London, an exciting contemporary art and design show which is now in its second year.

Keen to show my new glass butterflies, I used swathes of sky-blue fabric to create a backdrop. After hours of balancing on a very tall ladder to pin up the fabric, I stood back to admire my efforts only to realise with horror that it was a bit too reminiscent of one of those terrible puffball bridesmaid's dress from the 1980's!! However it all came together once the butterflies were added along with a display of bowls resting on their boxes. One visitor aptly named it 'The Glass Picnic'.

Coincidentally fellow Teepee artists Lucy Batt, Pippa Stacey and Brett Manley had pieces shown at the ZeST and Caira Mandaglio stands... a distinctly Teepee affair!

For more info on Form see www.form-london.com

Top Drawer Spring was fantastically successful for me. My stand was hung from ceiling to floor with hundreds of glass hearts which went down a storm.

Buyers were queuing up to place orders, and over one thousand glass hearts were sent out around the UK in time for the Valentine's Day customers. It is no exaggeration to say I do not want to see another heart... at least until next Valentine's Day!

A company called Pins and Ribbons was on the neighbouring stand and they loved the hearts so much they took a whole load to decorate their house. It just so happens that their home is being featured in Period House Magazine in the next couple of months, so keep an eye out for it!

To purchase glass hearts click here

Top Drawer is the essential trade show for innovative and inspirational design-led products. The Spring Show at Earls Court One will kick off the year's buying from the 13th to the 15th of January.

This will be my third stand at a trade show and I'm hoping it will be as successful as previous displays. I'll be taking a four square metre stand in the Interiors and Home Accesories area to showcase Alex R Glass. As buyers will be out in force looking for last minute products for Valentines Day, I will be making a feature of my bestselling glass hearts.

The walls of my stand will be adorned with literally hundreds of hearts to create a 'Valentine's Grotto' while the central set will be a table for two with Alex R glass bowls, platters and coasters on show.

If you're a trade buyer I look forward to seeing you at my stand (T14) in Home Accessories area near the Spring Bar.

Also on show is a dazzling range of glass from jewellery and bowls to architectural panels. Displayed as it might be seen in a home, the glass is set against Arts and Crafts furniture from Patch Rogers who has curated exhibitions for Liberty of London for many years. Both glass and furniture are for sale.

We are all very excited that the exhibition has been extended by six weeks for a January Glass Sale with 15% off normal prices. There will also be two special evenings of talks on art and glass:
Fri 25 Jan: "Art in Education " Talk by Philippa Tunstill
Fri 1 Feb: "Back to the Bauhaus" Talk by Caroline Swash
For more information see www.teepeeglass.com

Happy New Year 2008 to one and all!

The Glass Studio has been a hive of activity for the last six months in the run up to Christmas with Alex R glass being sent around the UK to both trade and retail customers. A warm welcome to all the new boutiques and galleries which are now stocking my glass - look out for an updated stockist list on my website very soon.

The most exciting event of 2007 was seeing the former prime minister being shown my glass. “The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair” was a documentary broadcast on Channel 4 during Blair’s last week in office. One of his final duties involved a visit to London’s newest hospital, University College Hospital in Euston Road, which is of course where my piece ‘Sundance’ has been installed. He was filmed being shown around the Radiotherapy Department by Julia Solano, the new head of radiotherapy. I have it on good authority that Tony was very impressed with the 'Sundance' piece!
To read more about 'Sundance' download the press release as a pdf here