All images copyright © David H Laycock

I began making stained glass pictures in 2004, after attending courses. Subsequently, I converted a spare bedroom into a workshop and have not looked back since. It remains a hobby while I still have a day job.

I use the copper foil method almost exclusively (see Tiffany below) which allows me to incorporate a degree of detail not possible if using lead.  Consequently, my pieces are not large, varying from a few centimetres square up to my largest project to date  -  two panels each 60 cm tall.  

They are primarily designed to hang in windows as sun-catchers but, with the right glass, would also look good on the wall. It’s also quite common these days to incorporate panels within double glazing units.  My pictures might comprise 10 pieces of glass or 25 or 250.  They are typically of real things  -  animals and birds, for example  -  with the occasional venture into the geometrical or plain quirky!

I make pieces for our own home as well as for friends and family and have completed numerous commissions.  A few pieces are currently for sale (see the Gallery pages).

I have taught copper foiling classes when studio space has been made available to me.

David H Laycock

Avening, Gloucestershire, UK

Glass Art or Stained Glass?  Leading or Copper Foil?  

What’s the Difference?

The most familiar examples of Stained Glass are church and cathedral windows in which coloured and/or painted pieces of, usually transparent, glass are held together in a lead framework. The details in the pictures are typically created by the painting.

An alternative method, using a thin strip of copper foil to wrap each piece of glass, can more properly be termed Glass Art.  Solder is applied to hold the foiled pieces together.  Familiar items created with this method include 3D objects such as Tiffany lampshades.  Some people believe that Louis Comfort Tiffany invented this method  -  at the very least he popularised it and developed opalescent or translucent glass to enrich it.