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Light Night in Leeds

Four Stained Glass Windows depicting the  elements.

Below are pictures of the finished windows with a brief explanation of the thoughts behind them.
The work was made with a very limited budget. The brief was to create 4 free standing panels that would then be lit to cast coloured light in St Johns church yard in Leeds.
The windows were lit with lights that changed colour. Sadly we could not put the lights on rigs due to health and safety so had to be content with them being lit from below instead of above. This meant they were lit but cast no coloured light.
​Underneath the finished work are more pictures of the process plus two of how they would have looked if lit from above,

The window on the left is Water.
Whilst designing this the shape of the fish appeared , it wasn't intentional but I liked it so worked with it.
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The window above is Earth. The thought behind this was the strata of the earth and then I got the idea to include the fault lines which to me represented the environmental problems we are facing during these times.

The window on the left is Fire.
I wanted to create the image of a strong fearless woman rising from the flames and open to the sun, the feeling of quiet inner strength.
Above is Air.
The colours of the earth's atmosphere combined with an illusion of roundness suggesting breath.
The air we breath .
This quote from The Tempest inspired me:
    "Our revels now are ended. These our actors, 
As I foretold you, were all spirits and 
Are melted into air, into thin air:"