Tag Archives: dc stained glass studio

E7 #9 Purple Haze

Posted on August 5, 2020 by debbiesshed

So I been wanting to paint the face of an angel… (I say again… ‘careful what you wish for eh!’) So here we have it.. a 70th birthday… a famous chord…. and a face.    E7 #9 Simple as….  

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Seagulls in Scarborough

Posted on June 8, 2020 by debbiesshed

A perfect piece of summer sunshine surprise on it’s way to Scarborough! Beach huts… seagulls.. sunshine… and shells….. And this is how we made it fit….  

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Through the think in’ glass

Posted on May 28, 2020 by debbiesshed

What strange times we have found ourselves in… I have named it my ‘golden time’. Two years I have been working out of my little studio in Kendal, named dc stained glass studio. And a busy bee i have been. … Continue reading →

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Sometimes it is like working in a sweetie shop..

Posted on January 2, 2020 by debbiesshed

Really. Just look at it. (ha. but don’t eat!) C U T . This. The beautiful multi-spot sheet of handmade glass that would form my coil of cyclists whirring through the Yorkshire countryside. This sheet of glass pinned the whole … Continue reading →

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Blackbirds

Posted on September 2, 2019 by debbiesshed

And the many colours they come in! Remember that lovely commission I had at Brantwood. Well, I have just completed another composition, similar, but different. It was so lovely to revisit this idea….  Similar but different. And this one is … Continue reading →

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Pure Goldie

Posted on May 14, 2019 by debbiesshed

And Ouli. Two. Well. Never had a commission quite like this before. My initial response was to say no, oh no, i don’t do folk. But when Laurie sent me her photos and i saw the wonderful glamour of Goldie … Continue reading →

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To hatch an idea..

Posted on May 7, 2019 by debbiesshed

Lapwings…. eggs…. feathers… landscape. Were the elements that the customer came to me with…. I have taken my time (i usually do!) to get from doodle to cutting board. I like the design.. the ‘thinky’ part of the process. The … Continue reading →

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Hung, drawn and coloured

Posted on February 22, 2019 by debbiesshed

(No pretense this time…) From this… To this…. To this…. and this. And finally. THIS…. I first drew bitterns years ago. I mosaicked bitterns. I made a sculpture that boomed. I read Bill Baileys book… discovered collective noun for bitterns … Continue reading →

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It’s 2019 – Happy New Year

Posted on January 4, 2019 by debbiesshed

ps…. I add these… Just because. Painted walls are beautiful. Gosh. What a busy year 2018 was… Here is what I got up to towards the latter end…. Sunflowers and swallows and Blackwell inspired this installation… (and lovely to get … Continue reading →

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Year of the swift

Posted on October 21, 2018 by debbiesshed

The year my eyes turned to the skies and urban bird, the swift… They scream around the streets of Kendal i was told.  So in the spring i eagerly awaited their arrival. They’ll come. Said the locals. And they did. … Continue reading →

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