Master Craftsman
Stained and architectural glass.
London, since 1980.
(01)Biography
I was drawn to glass from the start: its structure, and the precision it demands. Cutting it teaches you early that the material must be respected.
It led me to an apprenticeship with a stained glass studio in Shoreditch, East London, where I learned every stage of the craft.
Over four decades, the work has taken me from a stained glass dome in Riyadh to the clock faces of Big Ben. I bring traditional technique to contemporary design, and approach each commission as a problem to be solved with precision. The work still holds me, and I am grateful for it.
On cutting glass
“Respect the material, or it will draw blood.”
(02)Selected work
01
Elizabeth Tower, Westminster / 2010
I was commissioned to restore the four clock faces of Big Ben, replacing damaged and missing white opal glass minute markers.
Dial work is usually carried out from inside the tower. This could only be done from outside, so for two weeks I worked on ropes across the faces themselves, around the hands. It was the first time I had abseiled.
The work was later reported in the Evening Standard.
02
South Kensington, London / 1994
I was commissioned to make two central stained glass windows for the Natural History Museum.
The brief was preservation. Each window had to match the originals around it in layout, colour and texture, so that the new glass could not be told from the old.
03
The lightwell, Regent Street, London / 2012
For the lightwell of Hotel Café Royal I made more than a thousand copper and glass screens, rising through four storeys of one of London’s great historic buildings.
It was a privilege to work at that scale, in a building with that history.
04
Private residence, Riyadh / 1983
A stained glass dome for a private residence in Riyadh.
Stained glass is where I began, and this dome remains among the works closest to me.
(03)Commissions
(04)Exhibited
The Art of SeeingArtworks East, Leyton2025
(05)The studio
Copa + Glas is the East London studio where I am Master Craftsman. We make mirrors and lighting in solid copper and hand-cut glass: a studio collection, made to order; editions, each limited to ten; and bespoke works by commission.
Edition of ten
The Prairie Mirror
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