This north-facing external window and door surround in the Reception Area was designed and made with the students of architectural glass at NEWI.

The Design is constructed like a glass quilt, composed of single and repeated images, sourced by the students and myself. Quilts have an important, but underrated, place within Welsh culture and, as a primarily female undertaking, are particularly relevant in the context of the Women’s Unit.

The star motif is repeated many times and identifies the Shooting Star appeal fund. The hearts suggest love and affection and also refer to the Welsh lovespoon.

There are a number of other icons from Welsh culture - the Welsh dresser, a Welsh doll, folk dancers, quilts and blankets and samplers. Other images include flowers, starfish, seed heads, and leaves.

The total area of glass is about 12 square metres, and the windows were installed in June 2003

This commission was awarded for the Ryhurst Art Prize for art in a healthcare environment, and comprises four balustrade panels on the main stairwell adjacent to the café area.

The design shows two lilies against an op-art influenced pattern. The two coloured central panels are bordered by sandblasted panels, one containing a short dedication and the other, a verse of a poem by Robert Herrick.

The screens were installed in June 2005.

The design illustrates indigenous flowers and trees from Essex’s natural environment.

Images from nature are easily accessible to both patients and staff, and are associated with well-being, holidays, freedom and fresh-air.

The square patterns complement the dominant architectural feature of the glass bricks in the adjacent stairwell.

The windows were made from “antique” flashed glass, which were installed within double-glazed units, in March 2001.

The screen relates and illustrates the parable of the starfish, where the blue colour represents the sea and the yellow represents sand.

The screen was installed in the Wolfson Research Laboratories in Child Health, Bristol in 2001, and is dedicated to the memory of eminent paediatrician Professor David Baum, who died suddenly in 1999.

The design is based upon images taken from the booklet Bygone Scotswood by Terry Quinn.

The lower images, (the Adamsez works in Scotswood in 1943, and rivets) refer to the heavy industries on which the area once prospered.

Beech, and other leaves, illustrate the woodland origin of Scotswood.

Interspersed between the central rivets, creating a laddered effect, is a verse of the popular local song The Blaydon Races.

The “antique” glass panel is located within a double-glazed unit in a purpose-built light-box, and is illuminated from behind with fluorescent lights.

The work was installed in May 2001.

This two-part commission was for the Rowan Lea building, a new mental health acute in-patient unit in the hospital.

The hospital units are named after trees, and a triptych of three wall-mounted, screenprinted glass panels in the main entrance foyer is based on photographs taken in the hospital grounds, of dandelions, daisies and cherry blossom.

A week spent conducting workshops on site with service users produced large-scale, transparent collages, which were used as light-covers in an adjacent walkway. The works were installed in January 2002.