Wendy Lees, who was born and bred in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, studied photography in London, before participating in various group and solo photographic exhibitions in the UK, Melbourne, Sydney and locally in the Highlands. She honed her fashion and jewellery design concepts during ten years of work and travel in Europe, including several years in Edinburgh and London and visits to her family forebears on the Greek island of Kythera.

Anthony and Wendy doing a glass lampwork demonstration.

As a rural reporter for newspapers and magazines including The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Bulletin – and as an on-camera Outback reporter for TCN 9's Sunday program, Anthony has ranged the Australian bush for most of his working life. He is a regular visitor to indigenous artistic communities including Balgo Hills, drawing inspiration for his own works in glass from the rich hues of the Tanami and other Australian deserts.

Anthony studied kiln glass techniques under internationally acclaimed Yugoslav glass artist Emma Varga, who has been living and working in Australia for more than 10 years. Varga's fused, cast and polished glass art is represented in public and private collections at leading galleries in Australia, Europe, America and South East Asia.

Anthony also studied glassblowing under noted Japanese/Australian glass artist Miki Kubo when both were involved in the establishment of Emma Varga's Dee Why studio in the mid-1990s, and he has completed glassblowing and kiln courses at the Canberra Glassworks, Australia's only cultural centre dedicated to contemporary glass art.