Spirit Rising

Painted and Leaded Stained Glass 120x80cm

(recovered greenhouse glass and three discarded panel fragments)

This image represents the Spirit of Hope rising anew flowerlike from a mound of leaves. The mound is made of sections of restored and collaged domestic Art Nouveau panels.

September 2025

Margaret Summons the Muse

Painted and Leaded Stained Glass 30x30cm (recovered greenhouse glass and discarded panel fragments)

This panel represents artist Margaret MacKintosh rising from the William Morris styled plant matter and breaking with patriarchal tradition and summoning her own stylistic Muse in her garden in the 1930s

August 2025

War Boy

Painted and Leaded Stained Glass 40x25cm

(recovered greenhouse glass and discarded panel fragments)

This panel depicts contemplation in a time of chaos. The boy looks towards his future whilst behind him his cultural past beckons. Based on images of my father in 1951 and the Singer Sewing Machine factory in Clydebank. The factory was converted to make munitions during WW11 and was subsequently bombed in The Blitz.

July 2025

Fossil Hunter

Painted and Leaded Stained Glass 40x25cm

(recovered greenhouse glass and discarded panel fragments)

This panel depicts a modern day man collecting 1000 years old fossils symbolising the connection between Now and Then.

June 2025

Kimmi 1968

Painted and Leaded Stained Glass 45x45cm

(recovered greenhouse glass and discarded panel fragments)

This panel is a portrait of my mother who died during Covid. It represents eternal love.

June 2025

Breaking Water

Leaded Glass 20x20cm

(recovered panel fragments and broken glass bauble)

This small panel plays with the notion of fragmentation and the touches of reflective light on glass

June 2025