Education and Professional Experience

                            1948                  Born Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Nationality, British.

                            1965-1968         Apprenticed Linen Damask Designer, William Ewart and Son Ltd., Belfast.

                            1965-1968         Intensive drawing classes, Belfast College of Art.

                            1965-1968         Awarded, 1st, City and Guilds Certificate, Woven Textile Technology, Belfast College of Technology.

                            1968                  Four months crewing with fishing trawler, Vestmannjar, Iceland.

                            1968-1969         Foundation Certificate in Art and Design from the Hornsey College of Art, London.

                            1969                  Four-month student exchange to the United States of America, Drove from New York to Los Angeles.

                                                     Worked for May Co. Wilshire Boulevard. Drove from Los Angeles to Vancouver.

                            1969-1971         Diploma in Art and Design (Dip. AD) Sculpture and Drawing, The Waltham Forest School of Art, London.             

                            1970                  Season touring Norway with Circus Berny.

                            1971                  Worked for Kastrup and Holmegaards Glassworks, Nestved, Denmark. 

                            1971-1973         Master of Arts Degree, Royal College of Art, London.

                            1972                  Awarded travelling scholarship to the Iittala Glassworks, Finland.

                            1973-1974         Living in the Greek Islands and Turkey. 

                            1974                  Set up studio, Phipp Street, London.

                            1975                  Travelled through Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Rhodesia, Botswana, and South Africa.

                                                     Executed series of drawings for Piccadilly Gallery Exhibition, London (1976).

                            1974-1975         Lecturer at the Hornsey College of Art in drawing.

                            1976-1977         Lecturer at the Middlesex Polytechnic in the Foundation Department.

                            1977-1984         Visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

                            1978                  Living in Mustique, West Indies, Visited St. Vincent, Barbados, Granada, Martinique, Trinadad and Tobago.

                            1978                  Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

                            1980- 1984        Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

                            1980                  First Class Passage on Cunard’s, Queen Elizabeth 2, Southhampton- New York.

                                                     Sculptural works for the Heller Gallery Show shipped in the hold. 

                            1984                  Set up studio, West 57th Street, New York.

                            1984                  Instructor at the Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, (1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993.)

                            1985                  Set up studio and glass casting facility, Worship Street, London.

                            1991-1996         Visiting Professor of Fine Art, Chair of the Glass Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California.

                            1996                  Tenured Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California.

                            2007                  Taught Masterclass, North Lands Creative Glass, Quatre Bras, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland.

                            Present              Nature First. Sarco Creek Farm. A Nature Preserve and Californian Native Plant Restoration Project. Napa, California.

                                                     Professor of Fine Art and Chair of the Glass Program at the California College of the Arts. Oakland, California.