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After about twenty years working on stained glass, but almost almost exclusively on stained glass in Wales, I am now also researching stained glass in the north-west of England. I am recording stained glass from all kinds of buildings, focussing primarily on nineteenth and twentieth century stained glass, and will publish this research on a new online catalogue, similar to the the Stained Glass in Wales catalogue.

As the work is looking at connections across the Wales-England border, I am also recording and cataloguing more of the stained glass in north-east Wales, and elsewhere where the work of makers based in Chester, Liverpool and St Helens can be found.

I will be giving a talk in Wrexham Cathedral on 12 September about the stained glass in the building, and in November I will be giving a talk for the Conwy Valley Civic Society.

The BBC recently published a brief overview of stained glass in Wales that I prepared with images for the BBC Cymru Fyw website.

 

New images for Llangollen exhibition

My first new set of images for some years were exhibited at Llangollen Museum in June and July 2026. They were part of an exhibition created with my colleague Jenny Day for her research project on the Welsh poet Gutun Owain. The exhibition, ‘Poetry and Commemoration at Valle Crucis’, addressed the literary and visual culture of the medieval Cistercian abbey at Valle Crucis, not far from Llangollen.

I designed the exhibition panels, which were shown together with my images based on the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century carving at the abbey. The exhibition was also published as a booklet by the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. I also helped design the website for the Gutun Owain project.

 

New book on St Curig's church at Llangurig

A new book on the stained glass at the church at Llangurig, written by James Stirk, has been published by Sulien Books. The church is home to an unusual scheme of windows made by Burlison & Grylls for the patron, J.Y.W. Lloyd, in the late 1870s, incorporating local traditions surrounding St Curig and other Welsh saints. The windows are among the most significant early works by the firm for a church in Wales, and unusual as they form a complete surviving glazing scheme from the 1870s.

The book is structured as seven stations from which the nineteenth-century restoration of the church can be seen and understood.

 

Photography for new book on Portmeirion

In late 2024 I was commissioned to provide photography for a new book commemorating the centenary of Clough Williams-Ellis’ creation of Portmeirion.

The book, Portmeirion: The Architecture of Pleasure, by Sarah Baylis, tells the story of the hundred-year evolution of the holiday village, and was published by Yale University Press in April 2026.

The photographs included architectural interiors, views of buildings, views from buildings, and images of the numerous kinds of works of art found around the site and in the archive collection. I tried to capture different kinds of light and mood on repeated visits at various times of year. This new photography complements ephemera and archive photographs in the book from the Portmeirion collection.

 

 

 

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