I never considered pursuing a career as an Artist, even though icome from an Anglo ~Italian family, most of whom are Artists or Designers.  When I left school I really didn’t have a clue about what to as a carrer.  I ended up studying engineering and embarked upon a career in car design which lasted fifteen years.  In 1999 I was introduced to glass making through a friend. I really felt inspired and bought a small test kiln, which I installed in a spare room and started to experiment with it, learning the necessary skills from books and information on the Internet.  At the time there were only a few kiln fused glass artists in the U.K. and it was a very niche process.  It  took  lots of  research to source the necessary tools and materials from various Companies all over the world.

By 2005 I had converted an old stable at the back of my house into my own studio, to enable me to work more flexibly at my own pace and without the pressure of leasing expensive commercial premises.  I then spent almost two years developing my creative ideas and testing the reaction to them in a number of local galleries and art fairs, before launching my first collection in2007.