I’ve Been Making Dioramas For Over 17 Years, Here Are 25 Dioramas Of Films I Love

Each diorama in this collection captures an iconic scene from the big screen, frozen in time and place. Starring movie legends in MINIATURE: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Kristen Scott Thomas, Audrey Tatou and SO many more...

In addition to the paid work, every year, I make a "labor-of-love" collection. If I get to show them in an exhibition, it's a bonus, but I'm mainly making them for myself.

I was born in Cape Town and moved to London when I was 14. I studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University followed by Art at Central St. Martins in London. After that, I got a job as a graphic designer and eventually, I started a small art licensing company with Ralph Lazar, my husband.

One day in 2004, I received a figurine of a man in a victory pose, but with amputated arms above the elbow as a gift. I felt sorry for him and kept him. A year or two after that, I put it in an ordinary wooden box out of pure peace. At that moment, he transformed, as if he no longer needed regret. Something magical happened – life was breathed into that little guy and the space in the box seemed to open up to infinity. I had created an entire parallel universe. Godlike! And that's how Glass Cathedrals were born!

I could never have imagined all those years ago, that I would spend the next twenty or so years traveling with my bags of glitter, wooden boxes and suitcases of tiny figures, making hundreds (thousands!) of Glass Cathedrals, appreciated by people all over this very small big world.