I absolutely LOVE this piece, possibly because it was one of the first pieces I made.

It is constructed like a jigsaw puzzle, with each piece of coloured glass being placed on a single piece of clear glass that makes the base. Each of the coloured shapes was cut to size and shape by hand, and the whole thing was trial-fitted to check the fit, with some minor adjustments being made to ensure that there was a small gap between each piece of the jigsaw. Once I was happy that the pieces fitted, it was time to fill in the gaps between each shape. Think about grouting the bathroom tiles, but instead of a paste, I used powdered black glass, known as Frit. I used a small spoon to pour frit into the gaps, and then spent ages carefully using a small paintbrush to remove any specks of black glass that didn't go into the gaps. If you look carefully you can see some black flecks on the deep orange rectangle - I'm sure I didnt leave those there!

A Full Fuse to over 800 C melted all the coloured pieces, frit and clear base into a single 20cm square, which was then Slumped into a shallow ceramic mould to give it a dish shape.

This one is on dispay at home, and is not for sale, but we have other similar platters in other colours.