Residential

My brother, Ed, and his wife, Melinda built a gorgeous home overlooking the scenic Little Red River in north central Arkansas beneath soaring native hardwoods. They call their house “The End of the Road” and it literally is just that. When Ed and Melinda asked me to create stained glass for them, I was honored,…

The Poke’s Peak Windows were inspired by the dazzling, wide-open spaces of west Texas, a historic family ranch and its dominant geologic feature. Besides adding color and detail to their “in-town” residence, these windows are reminders of their beloved “home-away-from-home” often missed while in the “Big City”. The stained glass surrounds a west-facing meditation nook. As…

An Evolution of Flight was the final of three phases of window-making for a 15+ year renovation of a 1940‘s-era brick home in Dallas.

These stained glass doors celebrate the natural world that embraces this house. Hummingbird Garden depicts the darting, elusive color of these unique and tiny birds. Bear Dance was created for a lover of all things “bear” (and cobalt) and an astronomer.

Designing windows for an architectural genre that has no stained glass antecedents was a challenge. I finally got a handle on this dilemma by drawing from the distinctive graphic imagery of native American ceramics which both anticipates and influences the modern adobe house.

After studying the Metcalf’s landscape planting plan, “Hanging Crab Claw” (Heliconia rostrata) with its striking sculptural flowers caught my eye. This powder room window is an abstract, close-up of a bloom  – sort of a cross-pollination between Rousseau and O’Keefe.

The renovation of this 1930’s Spanish Mission-style house overlooking the Frio River on a ranch in central Texas provided an opportunity to replace its 1970’s “art glass” windows with airy, transparent stained glass that reconnects its interior with the outdoors.

With a grand view to Sleeping Lion Mountain, the most prominent local landmark, Lonn and Dede didn’t want to obscure their vista – neither are they particularly exhibitionist. These stained glass windows solved the dilemma!

I first devised windowless stained glass as an alternative to garishly backlit stained glass when a window was unavailable. In this case, the window was there, but views were not wanted.

As part of the entry sequence into this contemporary Hawaiian residence, the design for the transom stained glass takes several cues from the architecture and art surrounding it.

With rising heating and cooling costs for this International Style residence, the existing flat gravel roof was replaced with a single-ply insulating roof. Next the glare from the new white roofing material had to be considered. That’s where I came in.

The line drawing from which this design began came from some photography I had done of interesting geologic formations in the area.

Mary Baxter and I traded her “Two Domes, Moonset” for this window in her home studio in Marathon, Texas. I think I got the best deal. 

An Irish castle in west Texas? Yessir! This off-grid wonder was created by Don McIvor on his family’s historic U-Up U-Down Ranch. And every castle must have a chapel!

Located in Upper Limpia Canyon along one of the major flyways for at least sixteen species of hummingbird, the stained glass for this remote outpost of a house celebrates these tiny visitors.