When we started back in 1980 from a studio in Christchurch, we called ourselves 'No Flowers Glass’ because there were so many stained-glassed windows with floral themes, and we wanted to make contemporary work.
“We deliberately set out to raise the standard of design and overall quality of work being produced in glass in New Zealand, and one way we do that is by collaborating with New Zealand artists on high-profile projects,” says Suzanne.
I chose this colour for my kitchen walls because I had three different tones of wood in the room. My floor, my table and the kitchen cupboards. This slightly grey-blue ties everything together and tones down the yellows of the wood. I like that it is a slightly dirty blue and if I put out a bright ochre tablecloth, it fights it slightly in an interesting way.
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I chose this colour for my kitchen walls because I had three different tones of wood in the room. My floor, my table and the kitchen cupboards. This slightly grey-blue ties everything together and tones down the yellows of the wood. I like that it is a slightly dirty blue and if I put out a bright ochre tablecloth, it fights it slightly in an interesting way.
This is the colour closest to the colour of my raincoat. I put this on, and it makes any bleak day so much better. It is a colour I feel profoundly comfortable in.
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This is the colour closest to the colour of my raincoat. I put this on, and it makes any bleak day so much better. It is a colour I feel profoundly comfortable in.
This is the colour closest to the colour of my raincoat. I put this on, and it makes any bleak day so much better. It is a colour I feel profoundly comfortable in.
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This is the colour closest to the colour of my raincoat. I put this on, and it makes any bleak day so much better. It is a colour I feel profoundly comfortable in.
The gold concentrates your gaze on the face and give the icon an intensity that other colours don’t. It also doesn’t clash with the other colours. It just is.
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The gold concentrates your gaze on the face and give the icon an intensity that other colours don’t. It also doesn’t clash with the other colours. It just is.
Suzanne and partner Ben now call their business Glassworks, and for the past 35 years they have produced some of New Zealand’s finest traditional and contemporary stained glass windows from their Auckland studio. Their work takes them across the country, with commissions for Christchurch Polytechnic,Totara Hospice in Manurewa, Motatau Marae in Northland, and Tonga, where they provided a series of Pacific-themed windows for the Queen and Princess of Tonga for the Coronation of King George Tupou V.