Capturing Light - a wonderful book on New Zealand Stained Glass
This blog is not supposed to be exclusively, or even mostly, about stained glass. However, for one reason or another, stained glass windows have been the subject of quite a few posts over the past year. There have been good reasons for that, as current events or just where my fancy has led me have made stained glass the subject. Just when I was planning to get back to my more usual subjects, a magnificent book has been published about New Zealand stained glass windows that simply has to be mentioned. Blown and cast glass must wait. Brian Miller has just published a beautifully illustrated and most informative account of the work of his uncle Roy Miller (1915 - 1981), and the family firm that became Miller Studios in Dunedin in 1958. Roy started working with his father Oswell as a signwriter after leaving primary school in the days when paint was mixed each morning from powder. Roy Miller spent his life working at Miller Studios, mainly executing stained glass wind...