Having trained as an art teacher in the Netherlands, I have worked as a painter and print maker in Britain for many years, I am a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Around the millennium I saw the “Prisoners of Conscience” window in Salisbury Cathedral, which started me off on stained glass. I now live in Worcester, and I have also joined the Contemporary Glass Society.

 

I make small stained-glass panels to hang in front of windows which are for sale at galleries throughout the country, take commissions for windows, light boxes and so on I make free standing objects by arranging several stained glass panels in front of one another. I also make limited edition etchings and wood cuts. The work generally is narrative and concerns people doing things, interacting with each other, with animals, plants or the supernatural.

 

‘Rowing with seals’ consists of two stained glass panels, mounted on a wooden plinth. Loosely based on my time in the West of Ireland and influenced by the traditional costume of the fisherman’s wives in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, it shows a mother and child being ferried between small islands. Curious seals are following their progress.

Stained Glass Panel | Painted, silver stained, fired glass, lead, lime waxed tulipwood plinth. 2022

26x49x9cm