Stained Glass Artists well worth looking up

You will find listed here the websites of some amazing glass artists around the world. By no means exhaustive, nor in any particular order, these are artists whose work I hold in high esteem. Many of these artists do work in other media or other methods of manipulating glass but essentially they are stained glass practitioners.

Australia

Lesley Baxter (Les is Director of Architectural Glassworks in Melbourne. He comes from a background in stained glass but for some years now has specialised in kiln formed and decorated glass panels as independent wallworks and as architectural commssions)
Deborah Cocks (not actually a stained glass artist at all but a superb glass painter, making 3 dimensional objects)
Lance Feeney (although now retired Lance's website illustrates many of the beautiful windows he has made)
Marc Grunseit (Marc's particular specialty is intricately detailed fused and kiln formed glass sculpture, sometimes installed as architectural elements)
Frans Kat (Adelaide Artistic Glass; very creative exploration of design ideas engaging with many different techniques)
Paddy Robinson (Finglinna Studios; Paddy has just installed a new set of altar windows in St Bedes Catholic Church at Pyrmont)
Jean Orval (This site is very interesting from a historical point of view. Jean Orval arr. in Australia from Holland 1953. He died in Hamilton in 1987, after completing many stained glass commissions throughout Victoria. Jean's son Noel is building this website as a tribute)
Klaus Zimmer (Migrating to Australia from Germany in 1952, Klaus died in 2007. His final commission was a cycle of 78 windows for the new Parramatta Cathedral, Sydney, completed in 2003)

uSA

Joseph Cavalieri (I met Joseph during his residency at Sydney College of the Arts in 2010; lovely guy and very talented glass painter. His illuminated boxes are a clever solution to an inherent problem in displaying the autonomous glass panel; his irreverent humour is a joy)

Linda Lichtman
Ellen Mandelbaum ("I work in glass and paint with color and light." Beautiful abstract work)
Richard Millard (possibly the most highly regarded glass painter in the USA today, Dick Millard died 26th Feb 2011. He is featured in the current issue of Stained Glass Quarterly)
Peter McGrain
Judith Schaechter (I find Schaechter's imagery very inspiring and completely original. Her technique is masterful)

canada

Sarah Hall Studio ("By forging art with a source of energy, we create a powerful image about how we can live in this world
- it enables us to dream about who we can be in this world and how we articulate our stories")
Lutz Haufschild ("Collaboration is the way to achieve the most meaningful solutions")

France

Jean-Dominique Fleury
Atelier Simon Marq (This is the studio responsible for realising the windows of Marc Chagall)

Germany

Jochem Poensgen (Poensgen sees his work as being an integral part of the architecture in which they reside. His stated priority is to make windows you can live with, not windows to look at)

Ludwig Schaffrath (1923-2011; Schaffrath has had an enormous influence on contemporary stained glass around the world. He visited Australia in 1981. I was awed by his presentation when I attended a public lecture sponsored by Ausglass that year. Ludwig Schaffrath died of a stroke in Feb 2011; while building my website he passed on,viahisdaughter, his desire for me to use the above image to represent German contemporary stained glass)
Johannes Schreiter (a discourse on "The Art of Johannes Schreiter" by Sarah Hall and Peter Larisey, with permission)

Great Britain

Brian Clarke

Amber Hiscott (uncompromisingly contemporary work approaching watercolour in effect)
Andrew Moor (AMA is a specialist art consultancy, focusing entirely on architectural glass art)

iceland

Leifur Breidfjord (I was fortuanate to assist Leifer in an Architectural Glass workshop at the Ausglass Conference, Sydney College of the Arts, 1997; a charming man and a brilliant artist with some amazingly monumental works to his credit. His personal iconography is both dramatic and unique, often exploring Nordic myth and legend)

Italy

IKO Stained Glass (interesting and skillfully painted homo-erotic stained glass: adults only)

NB: images above are reproduced with kind permission of the artist or their representative