AMILTON D E S I G N G L A S S The artwork of Jeffrey Hamilton

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I'm pretty excited to have one of my windows on the cover of Stained Glass Quarterly Magazine, published by the Stained Glass Association of America. The window, to which I gave the Latin name Majestas Domini, is based on an image of Christ in Majesty, a woven altar frontal from an early Twelfth Century church in Barcelona.

The photos above show some of the installation process, chopping out the old diamond leadlight and installing the new glass. The chap on the far left is Mateo, a traveller from Italy. He ran his own glass art business in the Canary Islands, specialising in copperfoil, before arriving in Australia. Mateo started working for Sallie Portnoy on a large commission and later came across to assist me in the studio for a couple of months.

As I mention in the Stained Glass Quarterly article, there was much revision of the charcoal cartoon, going back many times to my source material. In fact the whole design process took about ten months before a solution was reached which was satisfactory to both me and the Parish Priest, Fr Colin Fowler. The Hand of Christ in particular had me stumped (the original Romanesque version was found to be too open) until one night I had a breakthrough and photographed my own hand in an attitude of blessing.