Helen designs the full scale model
for stained glass windows

Helen Maclean: Eire

Helen trained in mosaic and stained glass at Glasgow School of Art, and has developed into an experienced and skilled mastercraftsman, regularly collaborating with committees, architects and other artists in designing site specific environments and liturgical artwork. She has recently collaborated with studios in Italy and Germany.

She was Master Artist for the Community of Jesus at Cape Cod, when they built their new church in 1999-2005. This involved the design and construction of a 170ft. mosaic floor, an apse mosaic, a stained glass window and design for stone and bronze.

She says “community based projects have required an understanding of the needs and abilities of each group to create artwork that encompasses their experiences and abilities in some way...collaborating to design a unique piece that fits with the space and the people who use the space.”

Irina Corduban: London

Irina is a certified iconographer of the Roumanian Orthodox Patriarchate, who has recently come to live in London, with her husband and family. She also has valuable skills we are very low on in the UK, and is willing to teach them.

She is very accomplished and her work is of a high quality. Her areas of expertise are wall-painting (fresco in al secco and grafitto techniques), mosaic, stained -glass, icons on wood and glass and eastern church ecclesial embroidery, such as epitaphion and banners. on cloth, wall painting (fresco), mosaic.I do painted epitaphions, not embroidered epitaphions. And I paint any type of paintings not only orthodox but also catholic. She has15 years of experience, 5 years as an apprentice at a building site of church painting, and holds a degree in Decorative Design. Several pieces of her work are featured in the crafts gallery.

Further information can be obtained from Irina with photographs as an email attachment, and she also has a CD of her artwork available.

Irina Corduban: self-portrait