Emma Butler-Cole Aiken

I am a stained glass artist making contemporary work using time-honoured traditional methods. As well as making windows, I mould this primarily two-dimensional medium to create sculptural forms - stained glass windows that have escaped from the building and gone for a walk.

Inspired by patterns in trees and landscape, I overlap drawings and collage in various materials to develop compositions. Continuing with glass in a painterly way to maintain the immediacy and movement of the initial thought, the dynamic is captured.

I am passionate about colour and how colours interact. I enjoy the way light brings coloured glass to life and the shadows cast by direct sunlight. I am particularly drawn to deep blues. Blue trees and branches have become my visual language for unseen connections and realities.