window

Commissioned by a St. Paul client in the early 1990’s, this Iris window is installed in an opening over a side venting fireplace. The piece appears as if it is a lit painting over the fireplace opening.

A local client commissioned this Chickadee window to grace their St. Paul home. The fracture/streamer background glass gives the window added movement and visual interest.

The Winter window was created as a studio piece in the mid-1990’s. The window has three plated layers and uses drapery glass in the costume of the figure. This window is in the collection of a South Dakota client.

This Demon & Serpent window was commissioned by a local client in 2004. Full of fire and brimstone, the richly colored window is a reminder to do good deeds! Happy Halloween!

We have been very busy with a number of commission projects, including this lush pair of Landscape Windows for a West Coast client. Every window project we undertake begins with Bill working up a full sized drawing/cartoon. Our cartoons are given a simple coloring with colored pencils, to indicate details and basic colors. Once approved…

When we moved into our new studio space five years ago, we needed a window for the large transom above our door. After discussing several design possibilities for the 36″ square space, we decided upon The Winged Moon. Inspired by an 1883 needle woven tapestry by Dora Wheeler, The Winged Moon shows a sleeping angel…

This summer has been chock full of window projects large and small. A local client commissioned a set of three piano windows featuring a water/pond theme. The windows depict blooming iris on the bank, lotus in full flower floating on the surface of the pond, and fish swimming merrily under the surface of the water….

Commissioned by a local client in the 1990’s, the Ophelia window was inspired by an 1851 painting by John Everett Millais. The scene depicted is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet where Ophelia, driven out of her mind because her father is murdered by Hamlet, drowns herself in a stream. The rich coloration and fine details were achieved…

Bill has wanted to do a stained glass piece based on this illustration by John R. Neill, from 1909’s The Road to Oz, for a long time. The image shows Polychrome, the rainbow’s daughter, returning home to her rainbow at the end of the story – her father scoops her up as her sisters welcome…