I am a woodturner based in London, making hand-turned globes inlaid with precious metals and gems to mark the journeys, places and connections that hold meaning.

For twenty years I worked in the legal translation industry. I first helped build an American company from start-up through its expansion into the UK, and later ran my own boutique practice in London. As AI began reshaping the industry, I started looking for work I could do with my hands, with the goal of making something beautiful and lasting. I discovered woodturning in 2023 and knew I had found my place. In 2024 I was awarded a bursary by the Worshipful Company of Turners, which allowed me to spend the following year developing my skills and ideas at Cockpit Studios in Deptford where I am still based. The globes emerged from that year.

A sphere is one of the hardest forms to turn and one of the easiest to recognise. A ball is one of the first shapes any toddler learns to name. Throughout my life I've had an interest in history, world affairs, travel and geography, so when I look at a sphere it comes naturally to me to see an empty globe. The work is finding the story to put on it, and keeping that story at the centre, whether it comes from another person, my own past, or from history or nature. AI may have taken one career from me; but in the end it set me free to discover the world.

I am American by birth and British by naturalisation, originally from a small town in Pennsylvania. I’ve lived in New York City and have called London home for over twenty years now.