What does working with glass mean to me? Glass is a medium that fascinates many artists. It is a material that we grow up to respect. As children we begin to see glass as something we should not touch, it is too dangerous or too precious. We learn to fear how terribly it could cut us and yet it protects us in our homes. We enjoy pressing our foreheads against its coolness, breathing on it and writing in the steam. Glass can be both terrifying and yet keep us safe. As an artist I like to explore the many contradictory properties of glass. It is both solid and liquid, hard and soft, fragile yet immensely strong, non-permeable yet light travels through it, transparent or opaque, clear or coloured, cold yet sensuous. I like to play with the light that travels through the glass transmuting it into something magical. I like to build layers of glass trapping fragments of colour or form within tiny worlds. I like to imagine that you could get lost within each piece.