English Stained Glass

An overview with lots of photos of medieval English stained glass. A thing I'd never really paid attention to before is how much in the medieval / early modern windows, they are just working with CHIPS of glass. Really small pieces with lots of random shapes. They're clearly working with glass as a precious resource, and the effect is more mosaic than I'd noticed before.

The project I have in mind wouldn't be like this - because I'd start with fresh glass pieces, and I could buy as many as I needed to get whole pieces to fill in my design. Plus, so much of stained glass in this period is defined by the drawing/painting on the glass itself, which I don't think I'm interested. The author here, Cowen, clearly loves this part of the stained glass, and it was fun to see a lot of detail work in figures and drapery. But the painting on the glass is what reads as immediately 'medieval' to me, and clearly 'modern' stained glass doesn't do this.

Is there an interesting stained glass artist out there who is combining those?

Noted on October 30, 2024