Brian Clarke’s stained glass folding screen Riyadh takes its title from the capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. An intricate geometric pattern covers its 12 glass panels.

Clarke has been fascinated by Islamic art since the early 1980s, when he was commissioned by the Government of Saudi Arabia to design stained glass for the Royal Mosque at King Khalid International Airport. For that occasion, he studied the traditions of Islamic ornamentation extensively, an experience he translated into Riyadh. Clarke discusses this in conversation with Paul Greenhalgh in 2018:

"I did the leaded screen. I did a huge project in Riyadh in 1981–2 and the library and treasury windows were formed from Islamic patterns lead- ed together. I loved those windows, I found them intoxicating, beguiling. Flickering colour, a membranous veil, spiritual. As the years have passed by, and my knowledge of the medium has grown, I realise that those windows could live on a greater level of experience."

Riyadh constitutes the only stained glass folding screen by Clarke that utilises lead. Riyadh exists in an edition of 10 unique variants plus 3 artist's proofs, published by HENI.