Selections of commissions and some of my favorite pieces from those olden days.

Designed for hanging in a window to allow outside light to fire the stained glass with its translucent colors. But, in the evenings, when the panel is lit by room light, and seen only with its surface coloring, it must still tell the same story as when its back lit.
Constructed using the Tiffany foil and solder method.
Each make uses the same basic design but using different glass colorings, making very unique versions of the panel.
Panels 10.5" x 15".

A lone horse, away from the rest of the herd, wanders through the woods.
By wading down the center of the stream, no scent trail is left for predators to follow.
The background noises in the forest, are rich sources of information: the easy chatter of routine activity, the gusting winds of an impending storm, the ordinary water babble over rocks and stones, or a quiet, little hiss at the eddy just ahead suggesting a slippery falloff to be avoided.
And then, there are the smells...
This is the normal day-to-day existence of a wild horse. This is what I tried to capture in my stained glass mosaic panel, "The Stream Wader".

The mosaic is mounted on double strength clear glass to enable full back lighting when hanging in a window. I built the piece on a lighttable so that I could select each glass piece by checking its colorings and patterns lit from the front with the room's light or, with a flick of a switch, with the backlight coming up through the lighttable's safety glass worksurface.

Although the basic design pattern is used for each make, there is no copying or cloning. Instead, each will be a unique version of the pattern. For each make, once I've chosen and cut the first couple of pieces of glass, it has become a "version" and has begun to develope its individuality, which I usually chose to follow. If not, I will recut those starting pieces and begin the make over again.
Piece is 13" x 15"

Making boxes originated as work for a Garden Club show with the Octagonal wildflower pieces. The process of decorating the lid with painted mosaics traveled down to square boxes with hinged lids. Some designs traveled down also, very nicely. All designs detailed using 'cold glass' paints.

When I was puzzling a design for a new set of boxes, I suddenly remembered a little business card box I had made for a commission back in the 1990's. That was based on a trunk I had seen, and still remembered, at the foot of my grandparents' bed in their Astoria, New York apartment when I was five years old. It was one of the two chests my grandmother's family were allowed, when as a child, her family sailed from Ireland for New York. She said that her mother had given it to her as a wedding present and as a remembrance of her ties to her family here and back in Ireland. Her steamer trunk became the design of my latest line of boxes. I have put up a sampling of this project.

From deep in the rain forests of South America and up through the hot south-western states of the USA, the jaguar hunts. The top of the food chain in the Americas, this creature hunts the trees for monkeys, the rivers for fish and turtles and everywhere in between for everything in between.
In Africa it is the lion, but in the Americas, the jaguar is king of beasts.

The story of this piece begins with a photograph of a jaguar perched on a rock in a zoo. The locale was typical zoo, but that cat was startling. It was staring back at the photographer--i.e. we the onlookers--and without flexing a muscle of its face, its look said,
"mmm...lunch".

In searching the internet for info on the cat, I was captivated by the idea of the lush, dark rain forest that is one of its favorite homes. The dense and towering foliage, insures a world of darkness with just the occasional ray of light penetrating to the forest floor--even on the brightest days. I also assembled multiple photos of jaguars in multiple poses, and used them to come to know the cat's coloring, the turn of the muscles beneath its coat, and the stances the cat would take in various situations. From this I built my jag, in my pose, in my ethereal rain forest.

Wall hanging stained glass mosaic with 'cold glass' painting, Size: 14.5W x 24.75H inches.

Oceanus, the enormous river of oceans encircling the earth, was the realm ruled by Poseidon. This box celebrates his thalassocracy--his mastery of the seas. But that story involves all the roiling waters of the earth: crashing waves, thermal currents, rip tides and undertows. The waters of the oceans are not smooth and calm, but constantly in motion both uniform and opposed. That is the text of the story this piece relates.

The box is constructed of opalescent glass in the Tiffany style of foil and leaded solder.
The portrait of Poseidon was painted and kiln-fired.

The box measures appx. 8" x 6" x 3.5" (203.2 mm x 152.38 mm x 88.89 mm).