The Irwins came to stained glass relatively late. Jane was drawn to it in 1979, near the end of her fine art studies at New Brunswick’s Mount Allison University, after watching a friend make a ...

He designs and creates what he calls “finely crafted” stained-glass windows and doors, mosaic fireplaces, backsplashes, and murals for clients in the Bay Area and beyond.

I often see the round, bulb-like glass designs you hang in your window, but I wanted something different. These colorful stained glass designs seemed a perfect antidote to my planter blahs.

Stained glass has been on an incredible journey from the luminous and the numinous to the condescendingly humorous — but it hasn’t all been in one direction.