Each piece starts as free-blown glass, its colours and inner forms shaped in the heat of the furnace. Once cooled, it is cut and polished by hand, slow work that takes far longer than the blowing itself, and it is only this final cutting that reveals the twisted strands, nested vortices and layered spheres held inside.

Rawlinson studied Ceramics and Glass at Buckinghamshire New University, graduating in 2011, and his work has been recognised at the Coburg Glass Prize in Germany and the International Glass Prize in Belgium.

He lives and works in London.