Howard Martin (1907-1972)
Stained glass designer. Howard Martin was born in Morriston, Swansea, and studied at Swansea School of Art, where he was invited to teach stained glass from about 1935. Having established a studio with his cousin Hubert Thomas before the war, the cousins went on to establish the successful firm Celtic Studios in Swansea in the late 1940s. Howard Martin continued to lecture at the College of Art while designing for the firm, becoming Vice-Principal in 1962.
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Signatures and maker's marks
Signature from St Cecilia and St Francis 1939 Church of St Michael, Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Powys south wall of the nave (window number: sIII) | |
Signature from Christ with St James and St Margaret 1952 Church of St Margaret, Crynant, Neath Port Talbot east wall of the chancel |
Further reading
Maurice Broady, A Vision Fulfilled: The story of Celtic Studios and Swansea's architectural glass tradition (Swansea: West Glamorgan Archive Service, 2010).
Maurice Broady, 'An Undervalued Welsh Art: Celtic Studios' Stained Glass 1933-1922' Minerva, vol. IV (1996), 3-13.
Maurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 151-8.
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