Popglass

09/05/2026

Floral. Destination Northumberland.
Good fun to make. : )

03/04/2026

Some more recent landscapes.

27/03/2026

Small scale landscapes, detail and peripheral.

02/02/2026

Our latest exhibition 'Goddard & Gibbs: To The East - An Exhibition of Stained Glass Designs for the Middle East' opens at The Stained Glass Museum today.

From glowing mosque windows to the splendour of royal palaces, coloured glass has played a dazzling role in the Islamic world for over a thousand years. Some of the earliest surviving examples date back to the 8th - 10th centuries, during the Umayyad Caliphate, when light, colour and geometry were combined to striking effect. These works built on ancient Middle Eastern glassmaking traditions and were shaped by the skills of Byzantine and Sasanian artisans.

Centuries later, this rich visual language continued to inspire artists and designers. In the 1980s and beyond, the London based Goddard & Gibbs Studio expanded its international reach, creating stained glass for mosques, palaces and private homes across the Middle East.

This exhibition brings together a selection of their stained glass designs, beautiful preparatory drawings that reveal the creative process behind these ambitious commissions. Alongside them, discover the story of stained glass across the Islamic world and explore highlights from the museum’s significant, but rarely seen collection of preparatory works.

These designs, photographs and materials about the Goddard and Gibbs Studio were acquired by the museum from the archive of glass painter, conservator and artist Simon Ratcliffe (1941-2024) who spent much of his working life as the Chief Painter the Goddard and Gibbs studio in London. Simon’s helpful annotations give an insight to time allocated to projects, as well as the costs, fixings required and the person who commissioned specific windows, details often lost to time.

The exhibition can also be viewed via our free digital guide with Bloomberg Connects here: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/stainedGlassMuseum

The designs featured in the exhibition come from our extensive collection of preparatory drawings. Find out more about the history and purpose of a stained glass design in our short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcE0gyoAx8Q

23/10/2025

Screen printed then fired in kiln.

16/09/2025

05/06/2025

Sumer is icumin in.
Leaded light A4.