Beautiful Birds on the Charlton Slopes

 Charlton slopes in London SE7 have some of the most lovely stained glass door panels. Built in the Edwardian era many of them still have the original glasses intact. The panels below were made new but to the street design and building back in original Edwardian glasses from the area. It was great to be able to use these glasses as although the Muranese pattern is still made now and looks great it has slightly less embossment than the original pattern that really catches the light. 

Original glasses; deep plum (below) and green Muranese.

Beautiful birds painted by Flora Jamieson

 

A Touch of New Zealand in New Cross

 I recently completed these New Zealand bird panels showing Kiwi and Tui birds. It was great fun to make these panels which the customer designed with great flair. The colours in the design were bright and strong and luckily a new range of Florentine glasses with a fantastic range of colours has just come on the market. Florentine glasses really sparkle when they catch the light and bring out that tropical feel! The idea behind the colour scheme was night and day with the moon roundel above the Kiwi and amber roundel as the sun above the Tui bird. 

Photo courtesy of Robert Gale