Between 2006 and 2018 there were several commissions for stained glass panels to be designed for various parts of the Essex college. Art and Photography tutor Andy Brooke, who was part of Colchester Glass Artists at the time, was first commissioned by College Principal Ian MacNaughton in September 2006 to create a pair of windows…

Glass and photography have had long association. Glass lenses enable the camera to ’see’. Even the daguerreotype on metal relied on a layer of glass in a frame to protect its delicate, erasable surface, and it became redundant in face of efforts to use glass as a desirable substrate for photo-sensitive materials which occupied much […]…