The Preparation You Must Do Before You Do The Work

Deliveries

57 sheets of glass delivered to the studio since January: 33 from Germany, 8 sheets from France, 10 from Poland.

And – in 4th place – 6 (just six sheets: the pity of it!) from our own dear England.

Let’s say: 16 square metres in all.

And now, two months later, only a handful of the 57 sheets remains intact:

Antique stained glass

… while most of it is cut.

Dead Mouse

Just about to start cutting glass for 4 tall lancets for a 19th century chapel. (Painting starts next month, and continues through till June.) About two-thirds of the windows we’ll cut from brightly coloured glass (vigour, energy, glow). The rest is clear glass.

And some of it is seedy.

Seedy glass – which reminded me …