Kingfisher

about 1982
type: glass
size: 37.4 x 78.5 cm
technique: leaded, painted, stained, plated, acid-etched

artist: Rodney Bender

Swansea College of Art, Swansea

M/SCA/FLP/113
Made with flashed antique glass. The lines are made by acid etching, and the denser colours are achieved by plating coloured glass.

The panel was a Hartley Wood and Hetley competition winner.

The imagery derives from the poem 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire' by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Record added by Martin Crampin and Christian Ryan. Last updated on 22-01-2025
image © University of Wales Trinity St David, photo Martin Crampin

Subject(s)

kingfisher

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Swansea Stained Glass Archive Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2025. (record added by Martin Crampin and Christian Ryan)
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/5357 (accessed 5 February 2025)

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