Stained Glass Window

This all started in January 2005 when a group of students, led by Emily Shiel, asked if they could make some stained glass windows to cheer up the children in the Physiotherapy ward, at Palmers Hospital, Jarrow.

The students set up an art club, giving up their lunch breaks and evenings. During this time they researched ideas for the windows, wrote a letter to the hospital and arranged a meeting with Gillian McGinley, a freelance artist working at the National Glass Centre.

Eventually, their ideas took shape and they began to realise that works of art are exciting to make, but also take time and cost money! Through negotiation, it was decided that one window would be made to completion. The students accumulated all their ideas into one window, consisting of many panels.

Watch this space – final photographs to come – showing 'Stained Glass Window' at completion!