Local windows

Above left: a window depicting The Good Shepherd in Buscot church, designed by Edward Burne Jones in 1892. Bottom right: the shepherd's feet. Top right: another pair of interesting feet from a later Morris & Co. window in the same church.

Both churches on this post are close to Kelmscott and the River Thames, their interiors are strikingly different.

Inglesham Church was saved from unsympathetic restorations by William Morris in the late 19th Century and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Nothing I have read about this church mentions the windows, I think they are perfect for the place. 

Some drawings

Photos, plans and some of my drawings in the Brewhouse. What a great place to work.

My drawing from one of the attic windows and today's drawing of the Manor from the lane that leads down to the River Thames.

Drawing around the Manor

My first week here was in the Easter holidays so I had some young visitors. One of them was Aza, whose drawings of things that interested him in the corners of Kelmscott Manor you can see above. 

With half term coming up I hope that I have more visitors, of all ages, who like drawing and  make me guess what they have drawn and remember where I've seen it. Paper and pencils available from The Brewhouse.

St. John, Tuebrook, Liverpool

I have a plan to visit as many William Morris stained glass windows as I can this summer. So while in Liverpool this week doing research for a separate project, I tracked down an exceptional example from 1868 in the suburb of Tuebrook. In this highly painted and decorated Victorian church designed by Bodley, W.M's window stands out more than I could have imagined.

'Of the six figures in this very beautiful window, only one occurs in an earlier window... the others appear to have been designed specially for Tuebrook. Though all were repeated many times elsewhere, they nowhere make such a splendid effect as here'.  A. Charles Sewter, from 'The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle'.

Glass on the table

I have finished cutting the glass for the stained glass window I am making.

I have also started leading together the 91 pieces in the manner of a window made from fragments of broken glass, but more particularly inspired by patchwork quilts. The coloured glass pieces are from my scrap box of samples, experiments and breakages.