Awards

2010 Shortlisted for the Award for Best Use of Visual Art in Healthcare
2010 Elected as a Brother of the ArtWorkers’ Guild
2008 Commended in the Stevens Competition for Architectural Glass.  

2006 Winner of the V&A Glass Department Award for the ‘Inspired by…’ competition for part-time adult learners  

2005 Winner of the John Davies Memorial Award for best progress in decorated glass at the IGC  

Public art

2012 Two rooms for the Birmingham Children's Hospital and glass elements for an external sculpture at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas
2011 Glass and steel gates for Forge Valley Community School, Sheffield
2009 ‘Spinal Accord’, 4.8 x 2.3 metres, glass and stainless steel sculpture at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Bolsover Street main reception desk; additional photographic giclée prints of glass details in lift lobbies and consulting rooms
2006 ‘Ampersand River’, 2.5 x 1.15 metres, Copyright Licensing Agency reception

Featured
 

2011 FT ‘How to Spend It’, 5 November, p44

2011 FT ‘How to Spend It’, 5 October, van der postings online

2010 BBC Homes and Antiques November pp32-39
2009 idfx Magazine November p21
2009 World of Interiors Gallery August round-up
2009 GAS Newsletter Vol. 20 Issue 4 Summer
2008 60-Second Interview CGS Newsletter Issue 27 March
2008 Crafts Magazine May/June pp16-19
2008 Design Arts June pp12-13
2008 Coutts London Jewellery Weekend Guide June pp12-13

Recent exhibitions

2011 February ‘Heavenly Scent’, London: Glass Art Gallery
2010 November ‘Glas ... en Zo’, Eastern Netherlands: De Aventurijn Kunstbemiddeling
2010 October Art in Woodstock, Woodstock, Oxon
2010 September Open House Weekend, London: ArtWorkers’ Guild
2010 September International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge: Dial Gallery
2010 April SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art), New York: Park Lane Armoury
2010 (March-April) 7 glass artists, Eastern Netherlands: De Aventurijn Kunstbemiddeling
2010 (February) ‘Heavenly Scent’, London: Glass Art Gallery
2009 (November) CHASE Charity Mixed Media Exhibition & Auction, London: Royal College of Art
2009 (November-December) ‘Reciclamadrid project’, Madrid: Centro Comercial ModaShopping
2009 (October) ‘Art London’, London: Chelsea Hospital
2009 (July-August) ‘Painting in Light’ Solo show, London: Zest Gallery  
2009 (July to September) Crafts of Catalonia, Barcelona: Fundació Centre del Vidre  
2009 (June) ‘Same Difference’, Cedar Arts, New York: Corning
2009 (April) SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art), New York:Park Lane Armoury  
2009 (March) ‘Glass Echoes 2’ Exhibition, The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Bloomsbury
2009 (March) ‘Unpolished: exhibition of experimental glass jewellery’,  Contemporary Glass Society (online)
2008 (December) ‘Creative Jewelry With Glass’, Contemporary Art Glass Museum of Alcorcon, Madrid
2008 (November) 'Autumn colour in ceramics and glass', duo show, Koukan Gallery
2008 (September) 'iMAgine', MA Final Show (UCA at Farnham)  
2008 (June/July) ‘Glass Wear, ZeST Gallery
 

Work history

1967 - 70 Book editor at Longman (full time)
1971 - 79 Freelance editor and picture researcher for Weidenfeld & Nicolson and also for: Dent, Longman, Ginn, Evans, Sphere and others
1980 - 84 Fiction reader for Penguin and Granada
1983 - 1999 Freelance features journalist
1987 - 89 Co-founder of a writing agency called Wiseguides which produced business literature using direct setting
1988 - 89 British adviser for Houghton Mifflin in development of the software Correct Grammar
1989 - 90 Senior Research Officer for a British Library project at Middlesex Polytechnic leading to the publication of a report on authorship and technology
1995 - 2000 Consultant Fellow on various educational projects on the use of IT in primary and secondary education, in association with the Institute of Education, DfES and Oracle Corporation
1990-2004 Board member of the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society and  the Copyright Licensing Agency (Chairman 2001-2003)

Freelance projects throughout.

Formal training 

MA in 3DD Glass (Distinction) at the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham (2006-8)

Higher National Certificate in Glass at Westminster Adult Education Services (2005-6)  

OCNWM Diploma in the Techniques and Technology of Glass at the International Glass Centre (IGC) in Brierley Hill (2004-5)  

Part-time diploma course in Music and Information Technology, City University (1985 - 86)
Diploma in Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art (1966-7)  

BA Hons in English and Philosophy, Bristol University (1963-6)
Unfinished pre-diploma course in art and jewellery, Hornsey Art School (1966)

Non-Executive Director Training

2001 - 2003
Financial Awareness for Directors  (in-house ALCS training day run by Nigel Smith, Financial & Management Training Consultancy)

Group Facilitation Skills (3-day course run by the Tavistock Consultancy Service)

4 Executive Coaching sessions (Tavistock Consultancy Service)

Negotiation Skills and Techniques (2-day course, run by the Institute of Directors )

The Balanced Scorecard as a Management Tool (1-day course run by Organisational and Personal Development Consultants)

Effective Decision Making (tailor-made in-house directors’ training day for CLA run by David Kearney, OPDC)

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