Phone: 01799 501574

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www.timarmstrongstainedglass.co.uk

My services include design, fabrication and installation of stained glass windows, panels and mirrors. My approach varies according to your wishes and the needs of buildings. A site visit and consultation are usually required so that the design is agreed before work begins.

Most commissions require original designs, but I have a large file of period ideas for consultation. I enjoy mixing contemporary and traditional ideas and techniques.

Techniques on glass include printing, painting, sandblasting, computer design, leaded lights, mirror work and so on. By all means phone or e-mail if you have a stained glass project which you would like to discuss. My work is varied, and I am adaptable.

I also make kinetic and mirror constructions for exhibition in galleries. For these my approach uses visual experiment and exploitation of light and motion.

These terms are a guide only.

Free estimates within reasonable travel. At the artist's discretion. Usually within 60 miles.

The estimate is usually made from preliminary measurements and discussion. It will anticipate the total price of materials, fabrication, transports and installation.

May involve computer and/or handcrafted processes. Media: paper, ink, paint or anything suitable. Payment on delivery.

If you are satisfied with the design(s) you will be asked to pay a deposit to cover materials and initial costs. This will be 33% of the estimated price. The remaining 67% will be due after the installation is complete.

Glass costs between £15 and £300 per square metre, depending on type. Other materials which may be required include, lead, enamels, acids and so on.

Costs apart from the design, but including everything else, usually fall between £60 and £300 per square foot, depending on detail, complexity and number of processes. This variation is mostly related to the hours required.

You may have an idea of your price range, in which case the initial designs can be made so that the total cost falls within it.

Subcontracting (If required.)

Any work that I cannot do alone will be discussed in advance and charged at cost.

Location: Stamford Shakespeare Theatre, Tolethorpe Hall, Little Casterton, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 4BH

www.stamfordshakespeare.co.uk

The representational panels are taken from Victorian engravings and illustrate scenes from Shakespeare's plays. The 16 panels are installed in metal casements and stone. Materials include lustred and flashed glass. Techniques include enamelling, screenprinting and sandblasting. 

Photos by Terence Hoyles.

SPEED AND LAUNCE

SPEED:- What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.

LAUNCE:- What a block art thou, that thou can’st not! My staff understands me.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Act II Scene V.

About Tim Armstrong:

I trained first at Cambridge School of Art and Nottingham College of Art and Design before postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, U.C.L., London.

For nine years I lectured at Glasgow School of Art, for some of that time in the famous Mackintosh Building, before I returned to Cambridge to lecturer first in the Technical College and then at Cambridge Regional College.

I greatly enjoyed teaching and throughout that time I practised as a printmaker and mural artist, contributing to exhibitions in U.K., U.S.A. Germany France and Japan.

In the 1980’s and early 90’s I wrote and illustrated two books on the principles of pattern and colour. Both interests remain with me and are applicable to my present professional practise in glass.

From 1996 - 99 I retrained in stained glass at Central Saint Martins College of Art.

And I now take commissions for glass while continuing to print, draw, design and exhibit.

Qualifications:

BA. Painting; Nottingham Collage of Art.

Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art; Slade School of Fine Art, U.C.L.

Postgraduate diploma in Advanced Stained Glass; Central Saint Martins School of Art.

Postgraduate certificate in Glass and Architecture; Central Saint Martins School of Art.

1998 Arts Council of England National Lottery Grant for stained glass windows in Tolethorpe Hall for Stamford Shakespeare Theatre. (Installation completed 2000.)

Selected Purchasers:

Bain and Company, 14 - 15 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H 9PL. I.B.A., 70 Brompton Road, London SW3. Whitbread, Park Street West, Luton. Citibank, 336 Strand, London WC2R 1HB. C.S.C. U.K. Computer Sciences, Heathcoate House, 20 Savile Row, London. U.A.E. Investment Ltd., Pitt Street, St. Helier, Jersey. Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery. Australian National University. Manor Gallery, Royston, Herts. Scottish Arts Council. Van Mildert College, University of Durham. Glasgow Corporation. Strathclyde Regional Council, Education Department. Sidhartha Films, 24-26 Calton Road, Edinburgh. Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University. Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. Art for Offices and International Contemporary Art, London. Etchings International, 200 58th Street, New York 10022. Ronbie Editions Inc. 800 Trenton Road, # 228 Langhorne, P.A., 19047. Oleander Press, 17 Stansgate Avenue, Cambridge CB2 2QZ. Sentec Ltd., Terrington House, 13-15 Hills Rd., Cambridge. Stamford Shakespeare Company, Tolethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire. Department of Nanoscience, Cambridge University.

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