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When we gaze down from a plane at city lights at night, we feel like giants. Then, looking up at the stars, we feel like tiny specks amongst them. That a person can feel like a god and like a speck of stardust at one time, in one body and mind – what marvels us humans are!

Glass Cathedrals –  my series of miniature worlds in boxes – are inspired by this wonder, and the power of the tiny to communicate big ideas, experiences and feelings.

Born in Cape Town, I moved to London as a teenager. I graduated in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University in 1994, followed by a year studying art at Central St. Martins, London. This detour led me on to a very unusual life path, including living on a desert island, sleeping with lions, and not least, spending over two decades making thousands of miniature artworks in Cape Town, California, and now London. Glass Cathedrals been exhibited at art fairs and galleries, in bookshops and science museums, film and literary festivals.

As well as making art that reflects my ideas about being a tiny human wandering around a big planet, I specialise in capturing other people’s stories in their own Glass Cathedral portraits.

I am also the curator of Heathbound, a new annual group art exhibition inspired by Hampstead Heath. Her art retrospective memoir A Life in Miniature comes out in 2027.

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