"Confrontation" detail
Wick, Caithness is now my home, a long way from Perthshire where I was born and brought up. I studied at Edinburgh College of Art, then taught art in Stirlingshire before joining Caithness Glass as an engraver and designer. I left Caithness Glass some years ago and have been working freelance ever since.
I first encountered Copper-Wheel Engraving (a technique I still love) when I went to Edinburgh College of Art but it was long after I had left College that I found out about such glass making techniques as kiln forming, kiln-casting and sand-casting and began to experiment with them and look for ways of using them in combination.
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"The Fisherman", Wheel engraved on a sand cast block. Collection of North Lands Creative Glass
The next generation?
"Ancient Peoples" Wheel engraved, bowl by Adreienne McStay.
Collection Broadfield House Glass Museum
"Kelpie". Hand made glass "pebbles" fused together,then engraved. Owned by Mr and Mrs Gunn, Lybster. The "Kelpie" is a mythical creature from Scottish Folklore