As anyone who surfs will know, despite the crash, chaos and roar of the ocean, there is a strange moment of peacefulness when you ride a wave. It’s a quality that glass artist Dreya Bennett is somehow able to convey in her sculptures – waves with energy coiled, froth and spray all around; or a shoal of fish thrust along in a swirl of water. The sense of movement is tangible, yet all is captured within a freeze frame. ‘It’s hard to describe the feeling of being in the sea,’ she says. ‘You take a deep breath and relax, even though the adrenaline is flowing if the surf is big or it’s wild and windy.’
Dreya grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, swimming
