Curriculum Vitae
My work is to be found in several Midland churches, commissioned mostly as a freelance artist, but I have also been designer/maker of several projects for Norgrove Studios, for whom I was previously employed.
My designs are a synthesis of the contemporary and traditional in approach, often featuring complex leadwork and much painted detail (frequently through use of the scraffito technique). More representational works frequently combine age old subject matter with a contemporary twist.
My biggest project to date has been the complete glazing scheme of eleven windows at the new St Anne's RC church in Chapel End, Nuneaton. Other projects include several Roman Catholic and Anglican churches in Warwickshire and the West Midlands, Alton Castle in Staffordshire, and a sequence of backlit panels for a funeral directors in Nuneaton.
Commissions
My projects to date include the following:-
Nuneaton (Warks) Our Lady of the Angels RC Church : Annunciation / Our Lady of Walsingham Window 2022
Lower Gornal (West Mids) St James's Church : Resurrection / 'Noli me Tangere' Window 2021
Nuneaton (Warks) Our Lady of the Angels RC Church : Padre Pio / St Pio of Pietrelcina Window 2020
Maryvale (Birmingham) Our Lady : Two abstract windows in red for new Blessed Sacrament Chapel 2019
Nuneaton (Warks) Our Lady of the Angels RC Church : St Thomas More & English Martyrs Window 2019
Kingstanding (Birmingham) Christ the King RC Church : St Teresa of Calcutta Window 2017
Kingstanding (Birmingham) Christ the King RC Church : Easter / Sunburst Window 2016
Hillmorton (Warwickshire) English Martyrs RC Church : Painted panels on altar wall on the theme of the English Martyrs 2015
Streetly (West Mids) St Anne RC Church : 'West' Window on a theme of Christ in Majesty 2014
Nuneaton (Warks), St Anne's RC Church : Sanctuary ceiling mural of Seraphim & stars 2012
Vauxhall (Birmingham) St Vincent RC School : Foyer window of St Vincent de Paul blessing the children of the school 2012
Streetly (West Mids) St Anne RC Church : 'East' Window oculus of the Holy Spirit and 'Hand of God' mural 2012
Kingstanding (Birmingham) Christ the King RC Church : 3 light window of the Nativity 2011
Attleborough, Nuneaton (Warks) Devall's Funeral Directors : 8 backlit windows, round window in foyer plus 7 chapels of rest 2008-2010
Blakenall Heath (West Mids) Christ Church : 3 3-light windows in nave aisles 2005-2010 (collaboration, for Norgrove Studios)
New Arley (Warks) St Joseph RC Church : Triangular altar gable window on a theme of the Trinity 2005.
Wednesbury (West Mids) St Mary RC Church : Small rose window 2004 (for Norgrove Studios)
Alton Castle (Staffs) Crypt Chapel : Commemorative 2-light window 2001
Nuneaton (Warks), St Anne's RC Church : Complete scheme of windows; altar 'oculus' window of Holy Spirit and 10 large lights 2000-2008
Radford Semele (Warks), St Nicholas Church : Millennium rose window of the 'New Jerusalem' (for Norgrove Studios) 2000 (destroyed by fire 2008, recreation commissioned 2012-13)
Warwick, St Nicholas Church : Large north nave window (2 lights & tracery) on the theme of St Nicholas 1998-9 (for Norgrove Studios)
Bilton, Rugby (Warks), Sacred Heart RC Church : Scheme of 6 windows on a theme of Creation 1998-9
Rugby (Warks) St Marie RC Church : Small 2-light window on a theme of Archangels 1997
Current/Future Projects :
Lower Gornal (West Mids) St James's Church : Ascension window in apse (summer 2021)
Monk's Kirby (Warks) St Joseph RC Church : Our Lady & St Joseph (designed 2019)
Cherry Hinton (Cambridge) St Andrew's Church - Two window designs for south aisle (concept submitted, awaiting final decision 2020)
Nuneaton (Warks) Our Lady of the Angels RC Church - Three more windows to complete glazing of north aisle (Annunciation / Walsingham window to be installed late 2021)
In addition I am experienced in the field of stained glass restoration through my time working for Norgrove Studios and have repainted missing window elements for several churches, including Stratford upon Avon, Tewkesbury Abbey, Pershore Abbey and the cathedrals of Coventry and Llandaff, I have also been directly involved in major renovation work of leaded and stained glass windows at major churches in Kidderminster, Leamington Spa and Warwick to name a few.
Exhibitions
St George's Church, Redditch, Worcestershire
Display of panels and technical demonstrations
April 2009
Yarnton Pottery, Cassington Rd, Yarnton, Oxfordshire
4 Artists' Christmas Exhibition
November 28th - December 23rd 2009 & January 10th - March 3rd 2009
Ely Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
BSMGP Members Exhibition
January 17th - March 4th 2009
Cochrane Gallery, Southampton Row, London
BSMGP Members Exhibition
July 7th - November 28th 2008
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Exhibition of art influenced by Gaudi
Bibliography
I am the author of a small book on the medium:-
Stained Glass (Britain's Heritage Series)
Amberley Publishing October 2018
My work also features in the following:-
Stained Glass Quarterley
Stained Glass Association of America, Fall 2011 issue
Creative Glass Charles McFadden & Danjiela Kracun
Schiffer Publishing Ltd, July 2010
40cm2 Exhibition Catalogue
British Society of Master Glass Painters 2008
The Journal of Stained Glass Vol XXXII
British Society of Master Glass Painters 2008
Anglican World Magazine Issue 95
Anglican Communion Office 1999
