These are creative retreats for beginners and artists in any media, not just stained glass lovers. Here are photos from the retreat I hosted here at my studio in November 2022. I have a few places still available in my 5-day residential Intro to Glasspainting workshops beginning April 24 and May 8. No experience needed. Only 4 students per workshop. I taught glasspainting to glass scientists from Corning and elsewhere as part of the United Nations International Year of Glass initiative. It was such a good experience all round, for both artists and scientists. Please share this message with an ..read more

Thurs Sept 29, 4pm at my studio in Vermont I am building my legacy in stained glass. Why? Because I can imagine a future where artists in all media—including glassblowers, ceramicists, and mosaic and stained glass makers—will be able to paint easily onto any vitreous surface that may be kiln-fired. I imagine artists worldwide, including those without privilege, glasspainting with ease and fluency, inexpensively and joyfully, without technical restraint or frustration. So I am working to place my teaching methods undiluted into the hands of those who will continue to share them generously. Ple ..read more

I’ve just been invited to teach two stained glass workshops at the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York, USA at the Annual Conference of the American Glass Guild. I’ll be teaching a day-long glasspainting workshop on July 8th 2022. On July 9th, I will be one of three presenters in a ‘design circuit’ with the brilliant, and stylistically very different stained glass artists, Tim Carey and Petri Anderson. This is exciting news indeed, with an international team of presenters that include stained glass luminaries such as Judith Schaechter, Tom Denny and Narcissus Quagliata. I’m looking for ..read more

The workshop began with slides: How do paintings get transformed into stained glass windows? How does the painting on the left (below) by John LaFarge become the stained glass window on the right? Dawn Comes On The Edge Of Night. Painting and stained glass by John LaFarge 1903 We looked at the work of John LaFarge (above), Fernand Leger, David Hockney, Marc Chagall, Kehinde Wiley and others. These artists have all translated their work into stained glass, breaking a painting into separate pieces of color separated by black lines. Each tried not to lose the spirit, style, energy of their origi ..read more

‘Design scares me’ was one person’s response to my recent email about workshops. And this is precisely why I teach it! I want to de-mystify the process and make designing stained glass easier for everyone, scared or otherwise, beginners and professionals. a finished, leaded panel bare-naked glass (no paint yet) composite with bare-naked glass showing through cutline cartoon It takes considerable time and effort to make a stained glass window, so the trial-and-error method (make, review, learn, make another… ) is a slow way to learn. It’s quicker and easier to make progress as a stained gla ..read more

Kiln loaded with glass painted by students on the first day of this week’s workshop in Vermont Here’s a kiln-load of student work painted on the first day of this week’s intro to glasspainting workshop. Trace & texture: an Introduction to Glasspainting with Propylene Glycol is a hands-on, in-person, 5-day workshop in Vermont on painting and kiln-firing stained glass using my proprietary recipe, tools and techniques. It is the first in a series of three consecutive workshops. The second is a rigorously structured 5-day Stained Glass Design workshop. The third and last in the series of 5 ..read more

If you’re interested in taking a workshop with me there’s still plenty of time to apply for a scholarship from the American Glass Guild.  Their deadline is August 30th 2021. You will need to select a workshop (with me or another stained glass instructor) as part of your application. Those who have already signed up for one of my September 2021 workshops are eligible to apply. International applicants are also welcome. Here’s my schedule of Fall 2021 stained glass workshops for beginners, stained glass professionals and artists in any media who might wish to attend. And here’s the direct l ..read more

Hurrah! We are beginning to lift our Covid-19 restrictions in Vermont. So if you’ve been waiting to take a design or glasspainting workshop with me you may. At last! Hands-on, in-person, 5-day stained glass workshops will start September 20th 2021. Right before the pandemic I created a new curriculum, a series of three stand-alone 5-day workshops. Maximum 6 people per workshop. Suitable for all skill levels with plenty of one-on-one tuition and playful group exercises to counteract any self-doubt or artistic insecurity. Here’s the schedule. Workshops begin on September 20th 2021 with an intr ..read more

I am feeling a little giddy because I just won an award for the first mathematical artwork I’ve ever exhibited. “Laura’s Flowerpot” is a collaborative work made with my friend Duane Bailey, a mathematician and professor of computer science at Williams College, Massachusetts. The exhibition was curated by the Bridges Organization for the 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings, an international conference of mathematicians. You may visit the exhibition here, and watch a 9min video of Duane and I discussing our sculptures. The Artist Reception is today, Friday Jan 8th by zoom. All ar ..read more

Thank you Carol Schaller for your delightful comment below. I started this blog as a way for Carol and others at Trinity Episcopal in Branford, Connecticut to follow their commission. Starting with my very first post in April 2013 are dozens of descriptions of  the different stages of making Trinty’s stained glass windows. Type Trinity in the Search box and you’ll be inundated with work-in-progress photos and technical information.  These include glasspainting and design, the subjects of my May 2020 workshops. It was once feared that stained glass would become ‘a lost art’ but the tide has tur ..read more