Aidan McRae Thomson Stained Glass Artist
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Design Concepts

These are a selection of unused designs that at some stage stood a real chance of being realised as finished windows but for one reason or another (for good or for bad) weren't commissioned, usually either down to another competitor's design being chosen instead or the client preferring a more radical reworking of my own submission.

Very often this is down to personal tastes, what might have been accepted on one project may not be supported by another client, or it could simply be that the decisions made in a design simply were not considered right for that building, and however hard one tries to keep this in mind, the hardest part is sometimes convincing others that your design is the right one and will bring something positive to the space.

Whilst it is always disappointing to have a design that goes no further than the paper stage, there is always hope that such ideas can be reused or inform future projects (as happened with my Lamb of God window at Devall's Funeral Directors, adapted from my rejected design for St Mary Magadalene's, Lillington).

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Madonna & Child
Christ Church
Blakenall Heath
West Midlands
2005

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East Window
St Nicholas's Church Radford Semele
Warwickshire
2009

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St Nicholas Window 
St Nicholas's Church
Radford Semele
Warwickshire
2009

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East Window
St Nicholas's Church
Radford Semele
Warwickshire
2009

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Sanctuary Window
St Anselm's Church
Beacon Hill
Surrey
2000

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Trinity Window
St Mary's Church,
Clifton upon Dunsmore,
Warwickshire
1995

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Sanctuary Window
St Anselm's Church
Beacon Hill
Surrey
1999

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Lamb of the Apocalypse
St Mary Magdalene Church
Lillington
Warwickshire
2001

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Christ in Glory
St Anne's RC Church
Streetly
West Midlands
2011

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The Burning Bush
St Nicholas's Church
Radford Semele
Warwickshire
2009

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Byzantine Christ
St Anne's RC Church
Streetly
West Midlands
2011

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East Window
St Nicholas's Church
Radford Semele
Warwickshire
2008

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'Green Children' Window
St Mary's Church
Woolpit
Suffolk
1996

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Marine Environment Window
Student Project
Swansea College of Art
West Glamorgan
1994

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Sanctuary Window
St Anselm's Church
Beacon Hill
Surrey
1999

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Last Supper
Kingstanding
Birmingham
2002

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