Siddy is a glass-blower, one of the few art­ists working in this exact­ing medium to be gener­ally acc­laime­d as a master of the craft. Siddy brings to glass-blowing the met­icul­ous and rig­orous discipline she in­herit­ed from her grand­father, a succ­ess­ful paper­maker whose know­ledge of the craft was so ubi­qui­tous that he could tell, from rubbing a paper between his fin­gers, who had made the paper, and some­times even when. Siddy has that same dedi­cation and dis­cip­line in her work and has spent twenty-seven years  re­fining her skills and tech­niques, with endless ex­peri­men­tation.

Siddy came to glass-blowing out of a frus­tra­tion with Cer­am­ics, which could not be used to adequately con­vey what she, as an artist, wished to express.

She went through an app­rentice­ship at the London Glass­blow­ing Work­shop. She has ex­plor­ed, in her glass, the depths, col­ours and play of light achieved by add­ing traces of gold, silver and tin  to the glass. The colours are all  applied before the glass is blown, either by rolling-in glass powders, winding on hot-glass threads or the melting-on of coloured fragments. The designs are often further lamp-worked with canes , before being mouth-blown and shaped by hand. Each piece is unique, even when the design is one of a series

Siddy's glass­work is trans­luc­ent, and the col­ours have a rich three-dim­en­sion­al qual­ity. They con­vey her deep­ly-held bel­iefs about the rich­ness and value of our en­viron­ment and its fra­gil­ity and vul­nera­bil­ity. Siddy is a keen diver and the glass con­veys her won­der and fas­cin­ation at the rich­ness of life on the sea bed. She has never lost that fas­cin­at­ion that chil­dren have when they first pick up a mar­ble and hold it to the light - that tiny world inside the glass, constantly chang­ing as the light catches the patt­erns within the glass. Siddy  has recently de­vel­oped the tech­nique of 'drawing' into the glass before it is blown, so that the glass can be used as a unique medium for ex­press­ion, ideal for re­pres­ent­ing her love of the nat­ural world.

Siddy's work is ex­hibit­ed and collect­ed worldwide, with several permanent ex­hib­itions in Bri­tain. She will, occasionally,  produce pieces to comm­iss­ion,  but  prefers­ to do one-offs, or a series of works done to a com­mon theme. Each piece is made and finished by her and is in­divid­ually signed. She believes strong­ly that her work should remain access­ible for people who are att­ract­ed to her style, so will do simple pieces which cost little to buy as well as major works that rep­res­ent a more con­sid­erable in­vest­ment. For her, the import­ant thing is that people buy her work because it attracts and fas­cin­ates them, be­cause of the plea­sure of hold­ing the work up to the eye, and re­flect­ing on the complex play of light within the surface of the glass, to poss­ess an object wrou­ght by hand from the four el­em­ents of Earth, Wind, Fire and water.