Giving Old Glass a New Lease of Life...

 It's brilliant when you get the opportunity to show off the skill of the original sheet glass designers in a new creation. This panel was based on some previous designs of mine (shown below) and adapted by the customer to fit their shaped door panels and fanlight.

Drawing inspiration from the above the customer produced a beautiful design and selected a palette of glasses (both old and new) from which the shifts in texture were built up and decorative features added, pasting up the glasses to see how they caught the light and worked next to each other.

Here are a few detail shots of the finished panels.... 

And here the finished product...

New life for an old door too!

Restoration

 This beautiful Victorian panel came in for restoration via a local glazier. The panel was in dire need of an overhaul with 3 broken painted quarries, much damage to borders and in need of a good clean up...

The panel is stripped of the old lead, cracks noted and replaced.

An exact match for the original hand made glass in a pale yellow tint was found and the three broken quarries repainted, matching the originals, courtesy of Flora Jamieson Stained Glass.

Back to former glory!

Catch up!

 Some recent jobs...

Repairs and restoration to a beautiful Edwardian door set.

Unusual jewel possibly Uranium glass. 

Broken Victorian / Edwardian glasses.

Panel rebuilt using matching glass from my stock of vintage glass.

New panels made into sealed units.

New door New Panels! 

Photos courtesy of C Ramanauskas.

Badly damaged front door panel.

Panel rebuilt and replacement glass sourced from my stock of vintage glass.

Free hanging bespoke panels made for a trade customer.

A Victorian View

 Over the years I have had many Victorian painted roundels to restore or copy. These small individual quarries bought in an antique shop and now leaded into a panel and en-route to the Isle of Wight illustrate perfectly the Victorian view of nature; wondrous pleasure in the detail of organic life - imagined or actual, scary views of nature red in tooth and claw and frequently served up with a large dose of whimsy.

Who are you calling whimsical?!

Some more Victorian views on nature from another job...

  

Sunrise in Hither Green!

 I recently worked on a beautiful 1920's house in Hither Green. It is a wonderful privelage to get such a good canvas of panels to work on because you know they will completely transform the space.

Here is the before shot...

The customers wanted an Art Deco feel to the house but with more colour than you normally get with classic Art Deco sunburst designs. 

Here the colours are pasted up for the door panel and for the sun the customers chose an usual vintage glass that was reclaimed from an Edwardian House. 

Beautiful glass but not so great as a whole sheet.

The door panel leaded up.

For the fanlights we adapted some quirky Kees Keiler birds from a 1920's design. 

The original Kees Kuiler design below...

Sadly there does not seem to be much information about Kees Kuiler on the web.

Fanlight with 20's font.

The complete set!

Photo courtesy of E Sharp.

I love recycling glass and in the wings of the birds and dotted around the suns rays are some vintage glass used in reclaimed panels that were adapted for the film Black Widow featuring Scarlett Johansson and shown in the background of her sisters flat.

Happy Christmas!

 A Very Happy Christmas and Here's hoping for a brighter, peaceful 2023 

Penguin impression!

Stairwell Sensation!

 I recently completed this set of 4 stairwell panels. I have creatively photoshopped this image - can you spot the difference?!