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The monastery at Jarrow, where Bede was a monk, had stained glass – the earliest known in Britain. Tracing the development of the art from the 7th to the 21st centuries, ‘Painting with Light’ offers an introduction to the techniques of making stained glass and goes on to look at styles and subjects.

Technical improvements, like the introduction of yellow stain and of flashed glass, led to new ways of designing windows in the Middle Ages, but also led, by the 17th century, to the decline of true stained glass when enamel colours could be painted on clear glass.  After earlier attempts at a revival in the 18th century, notably by William Peckitt of York, the19th century saw a real renewal of the art, and the talk introduces some of the main manufacturers and designers of glass in that era, including Clayton and Bell, Charles Eamer Kempe and Morris & Co.

In the 20th century artists like Douglas Strachan, Harry Clarke, Evie Hone and John Piper produced high-quality, imaginative stained glass. This talk looks at their work and that of some of their latest successors.