This was designed to replicate/imitate the shimmering surface of a body of water whilst creating a pattern of movement and play of the actual water as it flows down the panel. Submerged lights create an animated effect through the panel when lit at night whilst creating a pattern of movement and play of the actual water as it flows down the panel.

These are toughened glass panels which are the boundary wall of the property to the street. As with ‘Refraction’ the water source drops from holes in the stainless steel tube above, running over the glass into an illuminated pool on the interior side of the building.

As with ‘Refraction’, gently flowing horizontal lines are employed to create a sense of relaxation in the viewer, these are unbroken wave-like lines giving a sense of continuity, unlike the more excited and fractured lines of ‘Refraction’

Transition

Water flows from the wall and runs
down a 1.4 metre glass panel into the pool then
over two more glass panels into another pool.

Subtle Bubble

This was commissioned by a couple who loved scuba diving and I wanted it to represent bubbles rising languidly from the deep.

I did this by blowing holes through the glass, allowing some not to burst but present a dome, like a bubble rising to the surface, affording the viewer an opportunity to experience the water flowing over and around the shapes of the liquid-like surface, and view the drops of water framed by the open space of the burst bubble as they fall to the pool below thus giving it more of a sculptural and spatial quality.

The pool has submerged lighting and as the drops break the surface tension of the pool, light is refracted through the glass further animating it.

Seaweed

As with a lot of my work, water is well represented by glass. The figure represented here is based on a mythical theme. I want the glass to be ethereal, to represent an idea of a being, as though in a swirling eddy, momentarily its spirit-nature is expressed in human form.

This is another work where the sculptural aspect is enhanced by allowing the water to move through and along the panel. Sections have been cut away from the glass to allow the water to fall behind the figure and through the panel enhancing its three dimensional quality.

Refraction 2

Overlooking a pool. I was interested in exploring another aspect of water refracting light. As the glass is set into a wall there is no illumination from behind and so the glass relies purely on the reflection of light and the ability of the glass to draw light into itself .

In this way it is very much like looking into a pond, observing the ripples formed as if by droplets of rain on its surface. The concentric radiating circles have a sense of expansion, layering and over-layering, suggesting pattern and order while remaining natural and spontaneous.