Patrick Reyntiens - Stained Glass

Patrick Reyntiens at 86 more stained glass goldmark

This exhibition is in celebration of Patrick Reyntiens’ 86th birthday. 

Patrick was unable to join us, as he fell last week and broke his hip.

I’m sure you will join us in wishing him a full and speedy recovery.

December 2011

01572 821424 visit reyntiensstainedglass.com

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Patrick Reyntiens Patrick Reyntiens OBE was born in 1925 into a very different world. Best known for his collaboration with John Piper, with whom he worked for over 35 years, he is an extraordinary artist whose contribution to stained glass, as an innovator, practitioner and teacher is now being given the credit it deserves. As Sir Roy Strong puts it ‘There will be a re-discovery of Reyntiens as an artist of considerable stature in his own right’.

This collection of panels gives an insight into the rich world of Patrick’s imagination, populated with an unlikely combination of landscapes, especially those of rural Somerset, where he lives, mythological and fantastical bodies, people seen on his travels; the rich imaginings of a life well lived and a mind well read. Patrick is always drawing, usually in sketchbooks, and these panels have the vitality of images unconstrained by the demands of a patron or a specific commission.

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Just Smell my Flowers! ÂŁ795 43 x 39 cm

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The son of a diplomat, Patrick spent his childhood in London, Scotland, Brussels, and Devon, before going to school at Ampleforth. He studied at Edinburgh School of Art, where he met his future wife, the painter Anne Bruce, and where their life model was a young Sean Connery. Patrick and Anne, who died in 2006, had a long and fruitful marriage, with four children, and a wide extended family, including the family they formed around the innovative art school they ran at their home Burleighfield House in Buckinghamshire between 1964 and 1976. Students came from all over the world to study stained glass, printmaking and ceramics, leading glass artists Danny Lane and Ray King were students; Barry Flanagan worked in the printmaking studio and sculpture exhibitions in the garden showed William Pye and others. A generation of students remember his time as head of fine art at Central (1976-86), for the lunches he hosted for students and the likes of Peregrine Worsthorne, Brian Clarke, and

the headmaster of Eton, and for his, at that time, unfashionable, focus on craft and practice, combined with his inexhaustible enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, the history of art and architecture.

Patrick was working for Eddie Nuttgens in 1954 when Sir John Betjeman, a family friend of the Bruces, introduced him to John Piper. Commissioned by the Grocers Company to make windows for Oundle School Chapel, Piper was looking for someone to translate his designs into stained glass. Patrick made the journey to Piper’s house near Henley on his Vespa, the trial panel held between his knees.

Piper was pleased with the result, and a great partnership was born. Between them they transformed stained glass into a modern medium. In many of their greatest works, they are co-designers, most notably at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (19627), where their breathtaking windows inspired by Patrick’s reading of Dante were recorded in the Shell film ‘Crown of Glass’.

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Patrick’s own commissions include windows for the National Cathedral, Washington DC (1969), and Southwell Minster (1996). Since working with his son, John, Patrick has designed and made windows for churches all over Britain including the Henry Moore Memorial Window, Much Haddam (1995), the great South Transept at Ampleforth (2002), and Taunton (2010). In 2009, at the age of 84, Patrick collaborated with Graham Jones to produce a set of windows for St Martin’s Church in Cochem, Germany. This important commission was the inspiration for the new documentary ‘From Coventry to Cochem: The Art of Patrick Reyntiens’ (2011).

DISPLAYING THE PANELS

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Each of these numbered panels is unique, the hand-blown antique glass selected and painted by Patrick. Each tells a small story, a testament to an exceptional talent.

The glass panels are best viewed when lit from behind and have been designed to be hung against a window or to stand on a window sill.

Each panel is provided with two hooks on the back to allow hanging.

Dr Charlotte Grant writes on contemporary art and on 18th century literature and visual culture.

To order telephone 01572 821424

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Puzzled in the Tube, £495

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30.5 x 24 cm

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I've Slipped, I've Slipped! £395 25 x 28 cm

Wet Weather; Let's Swim! £395 25.5 x 25 cm

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No Harness; no Harness! £395 19 x 28 cm

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Oh Lumme is this the Hand of God! £395 25.5 x 30.5 cm

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Ooh! What a Monument, £495 25.5 x 38.8 cm

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Into the Cave with the Cows! £595 25.5 x 34 cm

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Put it Up! Put it Up! £395

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Oh Listen to me Pilgrims, £495 30 x 28.5 cm

Rabbit in the Rhubarb, £395 19 x 28 cm

24 x 26.5 cm

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Ooh! The Fish! £495 23 x 30.5 cm

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The Gothic! £495

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32 x 22.5 cm

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Through the Desert, £495 21 x 35.5 cm

Oh! Sleepy, Sleepy! £395 21.5 x 33 cm

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Swim Baby as You Only Know How, £395 21.5 x 24 cm

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Horrible Dreams, £495 25 x 33 cm

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Somewhere in Arizona? £495 21 x 30 cm

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Exercise Tires, £695 26 x 38 cm

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Oh Relax, Relax! £395

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You Must Believe Me! £395 23 x 28.5 cm

Jewellery on the Tube, £395 29 x 28 cm

16 x 28 cm

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Romantic and Dangerous, £395 20 x 36 cm

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A Lonely Land, £495 25.5 x 33 cm

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A Walk in the Park, £495 24.5 x 32 cm

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The Big Stones, Standing, £595 21.5 x 33 cm

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All's Ok! £495 24 x 31 cm

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Goodbye Goodbye, £395

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18 x 26.5 cm

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Untitled, £275 17 x 28 cm

The Sacred Mountain, £395 18 x 26 cm

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The Tree and the Hill, £395 24 x 27 cm

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A Good Bridge! £695 32 x 35 cm

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A Church in the Country, £795 32 x 40 cm

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Let's Straighten your Tie, £595 25.5 x 34 cm

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Into the Desert! £495 26.5 x 26.5 cm

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Not Quite the Owl or the Pussycat, £395

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26 x 22 cm

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Hick, Hack, Hock! £395 16.5 x 28.5 cm

Too Wild to Swim, £395 18 x 37 cm

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In the Middle of the Coral, £495 24 x 28 cm

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Woman Asleep, £395

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Under the Ocean, £495 23 x 31 cm

Oh! What a Dream! £495 25 x 31 cm

22.5 x 33.5 cm

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The Insects in One's Life! £495 24 x 29 cm

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The Earthquake, £495

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25.5 x 28.5 cm

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They'll Save us from Atoms! £595 26.5 x 31 cm

Don't 'Barrier Reef' Me, £395 24.5 x 26.5 cm

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Wild Birds in the Wet, £395 24 x 28 cm

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A Beautiful Bay; Away Away! £695 31 x 36 cm

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He'll Not Come Back, £495 32 x 29.5 cm

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Oh! The Tsunami, £395 21 x 31 cm

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Away in Africa, £495 24.5 x 30.5 cm

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Fish, Fish, Fish! (And a Lobster), £595 31 x 37 cm

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A Wild Way in the North! £495

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24 x 29.5 cm

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The Brain's Alive: and Well? £495 30 x 29 cm

Let Him Sleep, £275 17 x 25.5 cm

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Oh the Freedom of the Air, £395 22 x 25 cm

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Country Sheep, £395

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21 x 28 cm

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Balloons, Balloons, £395 20 x 26 cm

Pretty Pony, £395 18 x 31 cm

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Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going? £495 27 x 30 cm

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It's an Ocean isn't it? £495 30 x 27 cm

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The Wind in the Willows! £395 27.5 x 34.5 cm

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We'll go Everywhere! £495 23 x 32 cm

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So Lovely; Relaxing in the Summer! £595 29.5 x 36 cm

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A Real Medieval Castle! £795 31 x 35 cm

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Hadrian's at it Again, £395

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19.5 x 30 cm

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An Awful Nightmare, £495 23 x 39 cm

Martha's Sausage Roll, £395 23 x 25 cm

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Chinese Gardens, £495 28.5 x 21 cm

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Is this a Chinese Restaurant? £495 24 x 28 cm

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It's a Nice Sort of Garden! £495 24.5 x 27.5 cm

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Oh! The Seas, the Seas, £495 29 x 29 cm

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The Waves! £495 25.5 x 27 cm

The panels offered here were created especially for Goldmark by Patrick Reyntiens to celebrate his 86th birthday. They were made at Reyntiens Glass Studio by John Reyntiens.

Each numbered panel is unique, the hand-blown antique glass selected and painted by Patrick. Each tells a small story, a testament to an exceptional talent.

Stained glass images © Patrick Reyntiens 2011

A new film documentary on Reyntiens by Charles Mapleston is available from Goldmark, price £15 plus p&p. 

To add a unique panel of Reyntiens stained glass to your collection telephone 01572 821424 visit reyntiensstainedglass.com

There will be a re-discovery of Reyntiens as an artist of considerable stature in his own right.

Sir Roy Strong

Goldmark Gallery Orange Street, Uppingham, Rutland 01572 821424 Monday-Saturday 9.30-5.30, Sunday 2.30-5.30 and Bank Holidays www.goldmarkart.com