
Stained glass artist, Jane Gray, whose work can be found in Pradoe Church, West Felton, St. Oswald’s Parish Church in Oswestry and Shrewsbury Abbey, and many other churches in the UK has published a book about her life and works.
Gray was the first woman to become a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and her work can also be found in many private homes. Among her many creations is the Millennium window at St. Oswald’s Parish Church, Oswestry, which was dedicated in 2004.
After moving to Shropshire, Jane’s work was spotted by members of the Guild of St. Winefride who had been saving profits from the Shrewsbury Abbey Gift Shop to provide some sort of beautification for the Abbey.
Gray says: “When they saw my display they decided to commission a window dedicated to St. Winefride. The window was installed in 1992. It is quite a large one, six lights on two levels and it is in the north aisle of the Abbey.”
In 1990, Jane Gray had a commission for a window in St. Peter’s Church on Monkmoor Road, Shrewsbury, and went on to complete a memorial window for Sir David Offley Wakeman at St. Peter and Paul’s Church at Fitz in Shropshire and a window marking the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings in St Mary’s in Chirk.
Jane has written Playing with Rainbows, a book starting with her enrolling as a student at the Kingston School of Art in 1949 and ending in 2010 with Jane still creating windows, as she says “while I still have my health and strength I will carry on working in the medium I love”.
The book, published by Ellingham Press in Much Wenlock, is available now from Amazon UK, and will soon be available from Amazon.com
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