I have fun bringing back to life discarded bone china and colourful mixed media such as costume jewellery to create mosaics on wood. I travelled to Ravenna in Italy to the home of Byzantine mosaics and undertook training in the traditional techniques with a hammer and hardie, I now mix the two in my work. I love the vibrant colours of the hand blown Smalti glass and the way the light bounces off the facetted rough surfaces of the glass and natural stone.