Cat window

Posted on January 10, 2026 Posted in Cat, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Colour, Design, ginger cat, Life, Memory, Stained glass, Window1 Comment

I don’t notice this everyday, but this is a ginger cat window that I designed soon after we moved into our house. My friend, who was actually a carpenter, made this leaded glass window for us. It’s a really unique piece of art and I love it on a sunny day when it really sparkles. It’s about 30 years old now.

If I could I would design another window to sit in the window at the top of the stairs. I like the idea of a really gothic idea with vine leaves and a black and white cat stari6out of the window. Perhaps I will draw or paint the idea.

Glass cat

Posted on January 15, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cat, crafted, Front door., ginger cat, Handmade, leaded light, my design, Stained glass, Window2 Comments

It still amazes me that my friend Phil made us this ginger cat, leaded light window above our front door from a design I drew out for him. It’s proper stained glass with lead holding it all together. It’s about 27 years old. We had it done because the half moon of glass that is above the front door was only single glazed and this does help the draught a bit. I’m so glad I had it made. X

Nativity, church window.

Posted on December 25, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Age, Art, Bethesda Chapel, christianity, Christmas, Stained glass, Stoke-on trent, TimeLeave a comment

This time of year is called Christmas and this stained glass window is in Bethesda chapel in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. It depicts Mary, mother of Jesus. I’m afraid the photo is a bit blurry and small, but it is one of my own pictures.

Around 2000 years ago stories were written of a tale of a child born to a virgin woman. The baby was visited by shepherds who were told to see the him by an angel. He was also visited by three Magi or King’s bringing gifts of gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. His family fled as refugees into Egypt to flee the massacre of innocent baby boys by Herods troops.

In later life, after performing miracles by looking after the poor and healing the sick, he was crucified by the Romans as a type of rebel, or freedom fighter, but he was trying to get people to love one another, care for each other, forgive each other’s sins.

The stories were collected into a book called the Bible and the new Religion called Christianity was born.

Candle in the window

Posted on September 26, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Candle, candle light, Ewood panels, flame, Photo, Public house, Stained glass, WindowsLeave a comment

When we went to lunch earlier this week I took a photo of the room. I liked the ambient light from candles dotted around the it. They gave a warm glow on the wood panelled walls and floor. The pub has spectacular stained glass windows so I shifted the candle over and took a photo. I guess the building is Victorian and may have been the watering hold of thirsty potters after work at the Spode pottery.

The Glebe Public house, Glebe Street, Stoke upon Trent, Stoke-on-Trent. Staffordshire.

Grey lady

Posted on April 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fine Art, Ghostly, Little Moreton Hall, Painting, self portrait, Staffordshire, Stained glass, WindowLeave a comment

Self portrait reflected in a stained glass window at Little Moreton Hall in Staffordshire. The idea was to create a ghostly image in keeping with the age of the property. I could have gone all out and added an Elizabethan headdress but I didn’t want to over complicate the idea. The painting is set at sunset when things get a bit more spooky. I do like creating narrative images.

Alien?

Posted on January 26, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, ArtRage app, Design, Digital drawing, Experiment, Finger painting, Fun, Pattern, Sci fi, Stained glass2 Comments

Playing with Artrage again. I started out trying to create something like a stained glass window, but it morphed into a more sci-fi style image x

Playing with filters

Posted on December 13, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Christmas tree, Digital art, Fine Art, incollage, Photodirector, Photos, Playing, Stained glass, Window2 Comments

I used coloured overlays and an added image of the previous collaged photo on top of this. I like the complexity and that the Christmas tree looks a bit like an insects head.

When I get fed up I like to play with images, creating something new, learning, and keeping myself occupied.

I used the incollage app and photodirector to create this.

Choir practice

Posted on November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carols, Choir, Church, Music, Poems, Poetry, Practice, Stained glass, vaulted ceilings2 Comments

In the church singing carols

Music rises up

To the vaulted ceiling

Every note with feeling

Ralantando, piano

Notes descend and lift

Practice make perfect

Not there yet, but harmonizing

Three weeks to go

To the show!

Church window

Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged All Saints church, Beauty, Church, Colours, Fine Art, Historical, Leek Road, Light, Stained glass, Stoke-on trent6 Comments

Gorgeous window at All Saints church on Leek Road Stoke-on-Trent. The colours really are bright and spectacular. This is at the rear of the church (but on the left hand side looking from the road). It’s such a busy road, it’s surprising how clean it looks. Whether it was washed for the ceramics festival, I don’t know.

Variations, ‘flower power’

Posted on April 17, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colourful, Design, Drawing, flower power, Fun, Sketching, Stained glass, Symmetry, Variations2 Comments

I started exploring the symmetry tool on one of my new drawing apps. I had just watched a programme about Saxon art and illumination illustrated in bibles and books, and also the style you sometimes see in stained glass windows. It’s interesting how different filters change the way they look. I feel like the face ended up looking like the Hollywood film star Bette Davis for some reason….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Stained glass