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John Edwards


Stained glass designer and artist. From 1955 John Edwards worked for Celtic Studios as a designer and glass painter. He also worked freelance for other studios, latterly working with Tim Lewis of Glantawe Studios, designing and painting stained glass. He taught at Swansea College of Art from the 1970s until the 1990s. Living near Swansea in Gower, his work is found in numerous churches across south Wales, as well as in Canada, where some of his work was exported to by Celtic Studios. Having also initially trained as an illustrator, John Edwards also works as a watercolourist.


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Signatures and maker's marks
  Signature    from    Millennium Window Signature
from Millennium Window

2000
Church of St Mary, Pennard, Swansea
south wall of the nave
  Signature    from    Millennium Window Signature
from Millennium Window

2000
Church of St Teilo, Bishopston, Swansea
south wall of the nave
  Signature    from    Peace Window Signature
from Peace Window

1995
Church of St Teilo, Bishopston, Swansea
vestry
  Signature    from    Scenes from the New Testament Signature
from Scenes from the New Testament

1961
Church of St Mary and Holy Innocents, Merthyr Vale, Rhondda Cynon Taff
rear (liturgical west) wall
Further reading

Maurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 155, 158-9.





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