I am a Toronto born stained glass artist working and living in Hamilton, Ontario for the past 23 years. My formal education was unrelated to creating glass, but I feel that any education whether related, formal, casual, or experiential, brings you closer to where you need to be creatively.

My education in glass began through attending workshops and classes with different friends and met a couple of amazing mentors who then coached me along the way. Funnily enough, I had to be persuaded into taking that first stained glass course. Although, I had previously experimented with other mediums - painting, textiles, clay – it wasn’t until I worked in stained glass that I found “my own” medium. As I began to create my own designs, I became completely enamoured with glass. Glass has so many options and variations just in colour and texture alone that can be hypnotizing. I can get lost looking through my glass collection.

When first making panels, my focus was on traditional Irish knot-work patterns. Most of my original designs still integrate knot-work and/or flowing interweaving lines that to me, represent continuity, balance, and interaction. The sense of movement is what I most like to capture in my glass.

During the lockdowns, I have enjoyed the focus that I could bring to new pieces, commissions and projects that were larger and more intricate. So as well as commission work, restoration and teaching, I would like expand on this journey and carve out more time to travel and explore a variety of stained glass techniques and styles that inspire me to create in new and imaginative ways.