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I work in copper wire and glass. I make representational sculptures of birds, fish and clothes . My sculptures are like line drawings in 3 dimensions. They are made of fine wire and glass. They can look fragile, but are actually robust. They have been described as ghostly.

Copper wire is quite versatile and not expensive. This gives great freedom to my work. I love line drawing, and shaping and bending wire is yet another form of line drawing. I can therefore work very big or very small and be quite experimental in my subject matter. I love working small, making children’s clothes – tiny dresses, jeans and sandals or big and flamboyant with sea eagles with a 5 foot wingspan or trailing jellyfish 10 foot long.

I love to use colour. I patinate my copper wire verdigris I also decorate my work with mother of pearl, rock crystal, amethyst, and glass beads in a myriad of colours ranging from lime green, to mauve to pale gold.