I have wondered if stained leaded glass artwork was inspired by the wings of butterflies. The same painting techniques artists use to illustrate butterflies can be applied equally to illustrations of stained glass.
By Harold Gaze (1884-1963) If I Could Fly by Rose Strong Hubbell (1917)Fruit Crate Art golden pumpkin butterflyFord SmithKaren Mathison Schmidt, American artist Sidney Herbert Sime (1867–1941) c1914 – 1930 Woods and Dark Animals Illustration for Sarah Austin’s 1834 translation of “The Story without an End” by Friedrich Wilhelm Carové. Eleanor Vere Boyle
There is something otherworldly about all of Sime’s art. Even a simple landscape is segmented by mosaic-like fissures, with odd creatures sometimes dancing like ghosts over the trees.
Alan E. Cober, Winter’s Eve, 1969The Different Odd by Hundertwasser, an Austrian artist1953 December, cover by Hans Moller Stained glassTHE POPPY AND THE POMEGRANATE (1962) Rigby GrahamTHE POPPY AND THE POMEGRANATE (1962) Rigby GrahamSvetlana Mironova – The Snow QueenSvetlana Mironova – The Snow QueenSvetlana Mironova – The Snow QueenSvetlana Mironova – The Snow QueenSvetlana Mironova – The Snow QueenSvetlana Mironova – The Snow QueenIvan Bilibin 1940sIvan Bilibin 1940sIvan Bilibin 1940sIvan Bilibin 1940sThis poster was designed by Charles Paine, who funnily enough, was trained in the art of stained glass. This comes through in his design.
PAINTINGS OF LEADED GLASS
Harry Richardson for House and GardenTHE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE MARCH 1932 cover artSir John Everett Millais, (1829 – 1896) Mariana in the Moated Grange, 1851Frank Dicksee ‘Harmony’ Vladimir Kanevsky – The Little Mermaid John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) Interior with Stained-Glass Window, 1880By Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) His Grandmother had Told Him , f. ‘Garden of Paradise’Russian artist Boris Zvorykin (1872-1942) Alphonse Mucha (created the illustrations used the production of), Brago, King Eternal stained glass window (1931)- St. Vitus Cathedral, PragueCharles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963)Please madame you are disturbing the tourists. J.B. BUD HANDELSMAN Cartoon for Playboy MagazineJohn Bauer (Swedish painter and illustrator) 1882 – 1918, ‘Thank you for the lovely pear’, she said. Illustration to Anna Wahlenberg’s ‘Trollkarlens kappa’ (The Magician’s Coat) from Among Tomtar and Trolls, 1912Eugene Grasset Concours pour la Cathédrale d’Orléans, located in the city of Orléans, FranceDE SCHAAPJES VAN BINUS (1943) Jo de MeesterChristmas Eve, an 1878 painting by J. Hoover & SonRatty and Mole Walking Home at Christmas by Chris Dunn Erica von Kager (1890-1975), painter and illustrator of Swiss children’s works, stained glass
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
