Monthly Archives: January 2021

Thrones, Bones and Cobblestones

What do you do when a saint looses his shrine? And what if he was not much of a saint anyway? That was the dilemma I faced when I entered a competition to design a new shrine for a medieval saint - and won! This mystery man rested for more than seven centuries in a marvelous shrine of gold, enamel and jewels. But curatorial issues won out over ancient pieties and the shrine was moved to a new museum.

By |2021-01-29T22:23:54+01:00January 29th, 2021|Recent projects|1 Comment

THE PADERBORN LECTIONARY

I have worked for the Archdiocese of Paderborn in Westphalia for many years, doing painted wall inscriptions for exhibitions, stained glass for the choir school, monuments for public spaces and even inscriptions for two immense bells for the cathedral carillon.  Paderborn was an important residence of the Emperor Charlemagne; and so it seems fitting that the archdiocese, like the emperor, should keep calligraphers busy.

By |2021-01-26T21:43:16+01:00January 10th, 2021|Recent projects, Suffering artist|6 Comments
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