I have always loved colour and been inspired by the ever-changing light of the countryside. Stained glass allows me to combine coloured light with images. This has answered all the qualities that I have been looking for in a craft. Living in the Herefordshire countryside surrounded by orchards, woods and hills and all the plants and creatures therein I am never short of ideas. I find that my inspiration is very immediate and glass colour choices relate to the seasons in which I work. I am also influenced by my interest in medieval Arthurian romances, which I studied at university, and their more common equivalent children's fairy tales.