Meet the Maker

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• Born in the very new town of Hemel Hempstead, Keith was a product of the Concorde era and comprehensive school system at its best. A proactive and very capable ‘modern technologies' department inspired a creative but industrial/engineering-based love for design, form, functionality and materials. By 18, he had designed and built his own hovercraft!

• Awarded 'Apprentice of the Year'  for the then mighty Hawker Sidley Engineering
  Group, his career as a satellite navigation engineer flourished until a career change was called for. 

• A more sedentary existence started in Iraq with the responsibility to manage numerous technology transfer projects from university to industry, leading a team of academics and engineers for over ten years.

• His career highlight was to be the only designer to have two industrial products
  on display at the prestigious British Design Council Design Centre in London in the summer of 1992.

• Raising a family accounted for another decade, during which time he used his creativity first to design, build and repair race cars for his sons and later, needing a new challenge, on glasswork. 

• A major stroke in 2019 left Keith with a paralysed left arm and leg, however turning
  to his passion through bleak times and pandemic isolation Keith learnt to re-use his
  arm and hand to regain his capability. 

• After three years of hard work, Keith was able to return to the production of glass objects with a renewed focus and direction, as well as running workshops and courses. He also delivers entertaining interactive and animated audio-visual presentations often accompanied by a practical demonstration.