“I wanted to see what stained glass could really do- not as decoration, but as a way of drawing with light. I wasn’t interested in making a window. I was interested in making a picture that happened to be made of glass. For me, every piece begins as a drawing: the image comes first, and only then do colour and space follow. I never thought about decoration. I thought about what the light could finish.

I don’t think of the work as design. I think of it as making pictures- they simply happen to be made of glass. Each piece begins as a drawing and is worked through slowly, from the beginning, until it finds its own form. Nothing is repeated, nothing is templated. The time it takes is part of the work. And once a particular glass or colour is no longer available, the piece cannot be made again.”