Tim Lewis
Welsh stained glass artist. Timothy Lewis was born in Pontarddulais and trained in Swansea, and then in London at the Royal College of Art under Lawrence Lee, before returning to Swansea in 1963. In 1972 he succeeded Howard Martin as the head of the Architectural Stained Glass department in Swansea College of Art, and was instrumental in introducing students to the influence of the contemporary German architectural glass artists such as Ludwig Schraffrath and Johannes Schreiter. Tim Lewis' studio, Glantawe Studios, has produced his own work as well as making windows to the design of others, notably Colwyn Morris and John Edwards.
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Signatures and maker's marks
Signature from Millennium Window 2000 Church of St Mary, Pennard, Swansea south wall of the nave |
Further reading
Maurice Broady, A Vision Fulfilled: The story of Celtic Studios and Swansea's architectural glass tradition (Swansea: West Glamorgan Archive Service, 2010), pp. 89–90.
Kirstine Brander Dunthorne, Drawn from Wales: a School of Art in Swansea 1853–2003 (Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2003), pp. 46–54.
Maurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 161–5.
Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 289–91, 298, 306–7 and further references.
References
Judith Neiswander and Caroline Swash, Stained and Art Glass.
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