9 Oct 2015  (18:15)
London

Although Wilhelmina Geddes has been described as  the greatest stained glass artist of  her time, she set herself relentlessly high standards which she outstandingly reached at  great physical, mental and material cost to herself.   From 1926, working beside eminent stained glass practitioners from her studio at Lowndes & Drury’s Glass House in London, she designed and made c. 20 windows and  panels of  varying sizes (ranging from her huge  rose window for Ypres to tiny literary panels for domestic use) after the 24 she had already made in Dublin.  Her work was always masterfully drawn and remarkably inventive, while revealing  her sensitive synthesis of  Classical, Mediaeval, Romanesque  influences expressed in a  powerful Modernist  idiom. more…

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