Simply Stained Glass Windows and Screens

WINDOWS & SCREENS CLICK ON AN IMAGE TO SEE IT AT A LARGER SIZE
	This was a very exciting project working with students from Kent College, Pembury, Kent. The then Headmistress, Anne Upton, decided to commission a new stained glass window for the Organ Room and asked us to work with four students on two separate designs. The winning design was then made by us and installed just before Christmas 2006. The three photos show the window, and Ashleigh and Pascale who designed the it.
Three sets of door panels in a Georgian house in East Sussex. The remit was originally to put coloured glass into the door at the back of the entrance hall (picture top right). Then, once the client was happy with the design, colours and obscurity of the glass we were invited to replace the existing modern obscured glass in the front door with the same as the back and create similar panels for the kitchen door. The coloured glasses are from Dynasty, Corella and English Muffle (Wissmach). The colourless Reamy glass in the kitchen door is from Lamberts, and although terribly expensive gave a more authentic feel to the glazing than modern float glass would have. It allows for fairly good clarity, but also interesting obscurity of the plants outside.
	Butterflies. Made using mostly hand-made glasses with a clear Reamy in between. This is an internal window between staircase and dining area.
A simple design to go into the door to a healing room. Seen here it stands in the studio waiting to go down to Swansea, so the colours are altered by the magnolia coloured wall behind it....
	A Transom, once half hidden behind a lowered ceiling - note the different colours on the wall!. Made to mimic the design on the carpet, we extrapolated how the design might be if it were wider!
This window was commissioned by the same lady as the Turkey window below. This is unusual as it has a very large pieces of glass for the sheep, larger than we would normally do. What makes it look so good is the combination of back lighting from the window about 10 feet away and the down lighter above.
	A small copper foiled panel to be set diamond-wise in a beautiful oak front door. This is only 12 inches across and was set inside a double glazed unit.
Here is probably the most smile-making window we have created. Larger than life size this is our artistic interpretation of a Bronze Turkey. Set here in it's home in the Yorkshire Dales.
	Based on elements of a Matisse painting. This window has been set inside a double glazed unit. Although you may get reflections on the outside of the door, from the glazing. From inside the house it still looks just as fabulous as a single glazed unit. The way it has been photographed shows its reflection in a hall mirror.
An Art Nouveau inspired front door and transom set. The glasses used were clear Reamy, Bullseye, Uroboros and Youghiogheny. This what the commissioner had to say about the finished result: Hi David, I had the pleasure of coming home during the dark on Wednesday night and Jackie had left the interior light on and the door looked spectacular. Woke up in the morning and had the pleasure of seeing the glass from my hall with the natural light streaming in from the other side. Beautiful, couldn't be happier. Many thanks for design, time spent and the end result. Please feel free to use my quote on your website. Martin
	Triangular windows made to obscure a roofline.
Photographed on a rather dull February day, a pair of Arts and Crafts inspired windows.
	Although traditional stained glass was not much in evidence during the 1960's home, there is no reason why it could not played a part in the period's style. With contemporary style echoing the 1950's and 1960's, this window has taken a basic pattern from that period and used to good example in this 1965 apartment. The window is positioned next to the front door and neatly obscures a wired glass window onto the internal landing.
This is the commemorative Window donated by the parents of the 2006 Leavers from Copthorne Preparatory School. The panel has been suspended inside the actual chapel window. By incorporating diagonal leads into the design of the same dimensions at those in the window, the whole panel looks less like an addition and more like part of the window itself.
	The Lighthouse window in a house in Lighthouse Lane! A simple contemporary design, made up in two pieces necessitated by its size and need for stability. The top panel is slid over the bottom one which ensures both stability for the centre and waterproofing as the rain will drip off the overhanging came. Inside it is secured into a plastic frame and given suitable rigidity by the addition of three cross bars of lead encased steel. This window measures 2.2m by .82m.
Designed to some very specific requirements, this is a Ruby Wedding Anniversary Gift. It had to convey certain themes. Those were cats, music, cookery, the recipients' initials and the years they met and were celebrating their 40th anniversary. To achieve this I decided that most of the themes should go into the screen, but one - cookery- could be cleverly added into the stand. By creating the stand as a stave of music the notes could then be depicted by spoons! It was a resounding success and is seen here in it's home.
	A pair of matching windows for a door from landing to bedroom and from bedroom to bathroom. Taking a Cartier brooch as inspiration, a variety of glasses from Bullseye (especially shipped from the factory for the job) and clear glasses from Spectrum make up these rather striking windows. What you can't see here is that three of the coloured and one of the clear glasses are iridised so they give a totally different effect when light plays on the rather the through them. Seen here after installation (before the beading holding the window in place was absolutely tight ) hence the tape at the top and left of the panel.
ORIENTAL This window is made from a selection of Youghiogheny, Uroboros and Spectrum glasses. It is photographed here with daylight playing through it. After creating the initial design for the window, (constructed with copper foil) it took 39 hours to cut the glass, foil and construct it.
	Based on two Matisse paintings, this window is set over a staircase. With light blazing in from the west (not when this photo was taken) the coloured lights plays over the surrounding white walls with fantastic effect.
KEN & CHRIS'S COCK A private commission (and my first) with a brief to create a stained glass window on a cockerel theme to replace one made from obscured glass . The design had to give both vibrant colour washes on the walls while still allowing natural light through to illuminate the hallway. Seen here from the hall side, the cockerel's body and tail feathers include iridescent glasses so that at night when artificial light falls on the hall side of the window the picture takes on a different effect. Even though I say it myself; I always enjoy seeing this window - thankfully it is owned by very close friends.
	COCKY Designed as a small display piece for Brighton & Hove's Brunswick Festival in the summer of 2002. David took inspiration from the festival's surroundings, but not following the obvious Georgian theme. Instead he looked beneath the waves that ring on the shingle shore on the edges of Brunswick Town and found these.
TWICE SHY Designed as a show piece to be displayed in its wrought iron bower. This piece of stained glass was devised as a window to be set into a circular opening or as a stand alone and sit in its bower in front of a light source. Why is this piece named Twice Shy? Well once bitten......... and I think it looks rather like a Bittern!
	A front door transformed from an ordinary obscured glass object to a piece of coloured joy. The door enjoys the advantages of facing west and (on sunny days) the view from the inside is a riot of colour. Photographed here at night from the outside; you can see the granite-backed Armstrong glass used for the dahlia.
DECO FISH Made using only Spectrum's Wispy Opalescent glasses and lead cames. This screen was designed as a demonstration piece and the glass cut during the Southampton Balloon and Flower Festival in 2003. It is 30" in diameter, and seen here is suspended on wires, though it also has a wrought iron stand.
	One of four transoms in a Victorian apartment in Hove. The original transoms had been removed by previous owners, but luckily the flat above still retained one of these. With the aid of GlassEye and the use of English Muffle glass and Roundels we recreated the original over the four internal doorways. You can see on the Designs Page the design for the front door and transom for the same apartment.
This is the finished front door panels and transom to match the internal transoms above. You can't see it, but these panels have been backed with wired glass to add security. They have minimal detraction from the stained glass windows themselves.
	These are Grace's Roses. A simple design based on a photograph of two white roses. The window is constructed using the Tiffany or copper foil method. You'll find the original design on the Designs Page, and if I have not already removed it, the making of the window on the Work in Progress page of the website.
Again, replica Victorian front door panels and a transom to match; which was not in the original front door ensemble. The pattern was taken from the house next door which luckily still had it's original glass.