A big congratulations to John who has been elected to the Professional membership of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals! John has been working for over 40 years at the highest end of our medium with extensive experience restoring and conserving stained glass of all ages, including medieval. He is very much looking forward to […]

  When the wall needs to be three times higher and you still need a ladder… Ongoing project, finishing the cartoon for the stained glass window to be installed in Our Lady of the Mountains, Whistler.

  We haven’t posted in a while as it’s been pretty busy here in our little studio. John has removed three windows from a local church, and is in the process of dismantling and creating new cutlines as part of a long term restoration project. I’ve been designing a new 120 sqft window for a new church, and […]

September always feels like new beginnings; residue from all the school years I guess. I love starting new designs and new projects at this time of year, and checking out new opportunities. We attended and did a presentation at the annual meeting of the BC chapter of the Canadian association of Heritage Professionals – what […]

Here on the West Coast of Canada you don’t often see medieval glass from England, and from Canterbury Cathedral no less. John worked on the restoration and preservation of Medieval stained and painted glass over the years from his time at James Clarke and Eaton, and also in our own little studio when we were […]

The end of a long term project is always exciting. We recently installed the last part of the Twelve Apostles project for St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Langley, it is so rewarding to see the culmination of all our work and to see the windows as we envisaged. The project in its entirety was 24 windows; the 12 […]

Hi everyone, It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything as we have been really busy with the second phase of our Twelve Apostles project for St Joseph’s in Langley. Happily all six windows were commissioned at the beginning of the year and it’s been full on figurative work since then. This is the project that has […]

We are excited to have started a very unusual project – we are restoring and repurposing some panels made up of fragments of medieval stained glass which were originally from Canterbury Cathedral. This is pretty extraordinary for Vancouver; it’s fair to say that we don’t have a lot of medieval glass here! The oldest stained glass […]

We recently completed a lovely commission of five leaded windows for Topnotch Woodworking. Their residential client in Vancouver wanted a special bar area (who doesn’t?!) and our panels completed the look of the beautiful cabinets. Although the design seems very simple, fabricating it can be tricky, but the most tricky thing when working with clear non textured […]

                                  An interesting project came through our studio recently; a lovely couple were referred to us who wanted two heraldic shields (as gifts for their children) to match one that was made for them 50 years ago in Switzerland. It’s an […]

We had a hectic run up to the end of the summer – practically non-stop to get five windows finished and everything ready and organized for two days installing them. Thankfully all went to plan; a 30ft ladder to access the flat roof, hauling up scaffolding to build over the skylight and get up to the […]

Laura and I really enjoyed following the Olympics, and were in awe of the skills and abilities on show and appreciate the thousands of hours of practice and hard work that goes into honing those. Laura’s Grandfather Bert Bellew won a silver medal for Canada at the 1930 Empire Games as a rower in the coxless […]

  We had a very special VIP visit us a few days ago –  97 year old Pat who is the benefactor of our St Peter window for St Joseph’s church in Langley. Pat and his daughters Suzanne and Annette were delighted to have the opportunity to view St Peter on the easel, and we […]

    We’re just back from our Okanagan installation, it went went really well. It’s always slightly nerve wracking to be working from a template that we haven’t made ourselves, but it fit perfectly. Heartwood Homes of Vernon were great to work with and they are building a beautiful house on the lake for the client, […]

The sun is out, there’s work to be done, and it’s times like these that we really love being in the studio. All the prep is done for the installation of our landscape window near Lake Okanagan in a couple of weeks, really looking forward to meeting the builders and the client, and to the […]

We managed to dodge the April showers and get a dry day last week to install our St Jude window. As always, John and Jim did an awesome job despite the tricky access, but this time they were carefully supervised by Coda (Jim’s daughter’s dog)! St Jude is looking very handsome, if a bit lonely up there. […]

It seems appropriate in March to post a photo of a hare painted on glass!  We have just finished this lovely little project for a long standing client. She is a William Morris fan and wanted us to create three door panes inspired by his hare design and chrysanthemum wallpaper design. For those who may not […]

As a painter, be it in whatever medium, when you develop a certain style you can be pigeon-holed as producing that and very little else. The truth is polar opposite, as you’ve spent years, decades even, studying, practising and sometimes failing before you find that elusive style. We recently took this little beauty out of storage, […]

John has just finished leading our residential window for the Okanagan, named “Bonsai Rock” by the client.  It’s over 5 feet in diameter and made in three sections so we have only been able to lay it on the light table to view, we won’t see it as fully envisaged with daylight until it’s installed. I’m so looking forward […]

Waiting for the spring….well, at least better weather. Generally speaking, we are pretty lucky (weather wise) here in Vancouver but to install our patiently waiting St Jude we need to reach an awkward window space that is accessible only by going over a steep sloping roof to a flat roof and then building a platform […]