2025
The Stillness of the Heron’s Patience
Mat:
Bulls-eye fusing glass, Oceanside Stained Glass & Mouth blown glass by English Antique Glass, using kiln-forming techniques, the Tiffany and the Leaded light techniques. The window is inserted in double glazing.
Dim:
W: 310 mm X H: 650 mm x thickness of glass varying between 3 – 8 mm
I was commissioned to make a heron for a window in a wall of my client’s new home, which overlooks a pond, where a heron regularly visits.
The thing that strikes me about the heron is their silence, their stillness, while standing on the water’s edge, observing, waiting without the slightest movement.
This is the theme I chose to convey in my approach for this heron window. I choose to have as few lead-lines as possible by making the entire heron in fused glass. I used layering of the glass to create a feathery body. The legs are designed in a way that shows joints without any interruption of leadwork. The environment has mainly big slabs of glass, to reflect again the stillness, with just some rippling waves and shiny smoothness, bringing out the blues through the sparse use of small pieces of beautiful mouthblown pinks.