G2-23 Daffodils

Daffodils is a stained glass folding screen produced by Brian Clarke in 2018, which developed out of his watercolours on the subject.

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Daffodils is a stained glass folding screen produced by Brian Clarke in 2018, which developed out of his watercolours on the subject.

Clarke described his attraction to the daffodil in 2023:

‘One of the earliest poems I ever read as a child was “I wandered lonely as a cloud” – like everybody – by Wordsworth. And there was in it “a crowd, a host of golden daffodils continuous as stars that shine” — I wanted to deliver what Wordsworth delivered in that poetry, as an artist and, somehow especially, through stained glass. And you know, I’d been brought up in an atmosphere, in Oldham – a former mill town, once "King Cotton” – that was essentially dark and bleak, and “Satanic”, but I felt that there was a real chance that I could bring light into that world. I shouldn’t want to overemphasise the idea that there was a planned strategy to nobly engage the human condition: it wasn’t like that. It was very instinctual.’

Undertaken without the leading that traditionally supports and joins stained glass, Daffodils exists in an edition of 10 unique variants plus 3 artist's proofs, published by HENI.

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