From a farm at the foothills of Mount Leinster, Co Carlow, Glenn developed a love of working with wood at an early age. At sixteen he became passionate about woodturning. He realised quickly that there was a demand for his well-designed and handcrafted pieces. On finishing school in 1993 he began an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker (Carlow, Dublin, Germany) where he learned many new skills.

In 1996 Glenn set up his own business as a woodturner and undertook a two year business course with the Crafts Council of Ireland in Kilkenny and Carlingford, Co Louth. Returning to Co Carlow in 2005, Glenn opened his own studio from where he runs a business that produces approximately 1500 fine crafted bowls per annum.

Glenn makes all his salad bowls from native Irish hardwood sourced locally. The bowls are skillfully hand turned on a lathe to produce the purest of forms and finished with natural oils to protect the wood and also maintain the richness of the grain.

Glenn balances his bowl production with an extensive teaching programme run from his County Carlow ‘Woodturning Study Centre’ and was recently the featured ‘wood master’ in the RTE ‘Craft Master’ series. Glenn is a frequent guest Teacher and Demonstrator at overseas conferences.