Here’s an article about working with clients which Stephen wrote a while back.
Various reasons for citing it here:
So have a look here. I promise it’s worth your time.
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 …
Because we paint stained glass, what always happens is: designing and painting are the things we do a lot of, whereas a far smaller part of our time is involved with (a) cutting glass, or (b) assembling it in lead, soldering, cementing etc.
So let’s say we’ve got a three-month project whose design is finished: everything’s ready for us to start.
In between, it’s painting, painting, painting. Two months’ worth of painting (along with chasing new projects and preparing initial designs for later work).
Now painting’s great. Painting’s absolutely wonderful. But doing so much of it could easily make big problems for us elsewhere. The problems could be, our cutting and leading might suffer. Actually, this could easily happen.
And that’s why …
For our 4-day workshop at Bryn Athyn College, we’ll bring various designs from our actual windows e.g. the tycoon’s beasts and the Coronation lion.
I’m also preparing some ‘new’ designs …