The Expert Assistant’s Assembly

Stained glass cross with Saints Francis and Martha by Williams and Byrne, designers, painters and restorers of stained glass

by Stephen Byrne on October 27, 2009

As many of you saw on our live Twitter feed from the studio – see “What’s Happening in the Studio Today“, right – our itinerant expert assistant joined us last week from the Isle of Arran (just off the west coast of Scotland).

He it was who assembled this Celtic Cross and Saints Francis and Martha most elegantly for us.

And, in response to your questions, we are now preparing a new guide. It explains the way we used here of painting a stained glass face – Saint Martha’s face, she who is the patron saint of hotel-keepers and housewives. (Thus her keys and ladle.)

What’s more, you’ll also get a fine selection of online video. That’s right, you’ll actually be able to see us take a blender to Martha’s nose. And if that isn’t a sign of an Open Society, I don’t know what is.

“When?”

As soon as we can.

In the meantime, we must arrange to put this cross and the good saints in their proper place.

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