Night Bloom

Part of a series of stained glass 'portals', made to be backlit and hung on a wall as though they are windows. Made from Bullseye and Yoghiogheny glass.
'Night Bloom' is inspired by the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley, especially his work on a publication of Le Morte D'Arthur, a collection of Arthurian tales by Sir Thomas Malor - taking these illustrations of tales that are another kind of morality story and preserving them in architectural stained glass, the way other belief stories are, is the purpose of this collection of stained glass pieces. 'Night Bloom' in particular is a tribute to a small piece of manuscript illumination, Beardsley's snail - the slow and small and preciously symmetrical.