Category: Issue 122
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A Royal Visit for the Stained Glass Museum
On 27 November, the Stained Glass Museum celebrated the upcoming 40th anniversary of its opening to the public with a visit from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The Prince became patron of the museum during its 25th anniversary appeal, and in this, his second, visit to the museum he enjoyed seeing how the…
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The Corpus Vitrearum Celebrates
The British arm of the international stained glass research project, the Corpus Vitrearum, recently celebrated being awarded charitable status. As a registered charity, the CVMA (GB) will more easily and widely by recognised as existing for social benefit, and will now have access to certain sources of grant funding open only to organisations with charitable…
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Further travels of Nineteenth-Century British Stained Glass
Following on from the discovery, featured in last month’s Vidimus (issue 121), of stained glass at the Güell Palace in Barcelona from the studio of T. W. Camm, this month brings further evidence of the international travels of stained glass produced in Britain in the nineteenth century – as well as modern day commitment to…
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York Open Studios: Lecture by Ann Sotheran
Saturday, 23rd February, 2019, 10.30 am York Open Studios (YOS) is an annual arts event celebrating the best artists and art makers living in and around the city of York. As part of this event, YOS is proud to pre-sent two public lectures, by the sculptor, Richard Mackness, and stained glass artist, Ann Sotheran. Ann,…
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British Society of Master Glass Painters: a New Website and a Look Ahead to 2019
The BSMGP recently launched its beautifully transformed website (www.bsmgp.org.uk). It now contains not only information about the Society, its events, publications and how to become a member, but also serves as a broader resource for stained glass, both con-temporary and historic, as well as its conservation. It is worth a regular look by anybody interested…
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Espying Heaven: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe and his Artists
By Adrian Barlow (Lutterworth Press), 144pp., 254 x 189mm, £25.00. Expected January 2019. Barlow’s latest volume is a lavishly-illustrated exploration of the work of the Victorian church artist, Charles Eamer Kempe, and the team of artists he led and inspired. Espying Heaven is the first full-scale and full-colour survey of the achievement of arguably the…
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A Christmas Ghost Story
A NIGHT IN KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL By M. R. James In Vidimus issues of ten and more years ago, we brought out readers a Christmas treat in the form of a ghost story by the master of the spooky tale, M. R. James (issue 13), and another in tribute to his skills and style (issue…