Kabinettscheiben

The Kabinettscheiben are a series of small-scale stained glass panels. Each of these artworks ‘translates’ one of Clarke’s Vespers series of watercolour paintings, made between 2019 and 2020.

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The Kabinettscheiben are a series of small-scale stained glass panels. Each of these artworks ‘translates’ one of Clarke’s Vespers series of watercolour paintings, made between 2019 and 2020.

In his monograph Brian Clarke: Vespers from 2021 Clarke explains:

‘[…] it’s like luminous gossamer; a petal that dissolves in your pocket when you’ve picked it, an angel’s wing material. No textile company could approach it; we can’t come within a mile of creating such a powerfully, intensely coloured diaphanous membrane as that. It feels like life itself. And it lasts for no time.’

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