The Mermaid

After much longer than I care to admit I completed The Mermaid Window in August 2026. This piece was Commissioned by a customer called Harry who had previously brought my high end piece from the BBC programme, 'Make it at Market.' He then went on to commission me a piece called Lady Auburn. Later he asked me to make two  5 foot windows to go either side of his front door and I chose to do the mermaid first.

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I agreed as long as he understood that I would be working on his windows in the background. I instinctively knew that the amount of time it would take me to make what he was asking would not keep my business afloat, he understood so gave me the time to practice many different techniques that I would eventually use to make the window.

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There were many many issues that I came upon, the obvious on being that I have never done a 'proper' window before and had only just learned how to paint onto glass using my kiln. Another issue was sizing, I am able to draw on a reasonably large scale but this size was something I was not competent at. I spent a huge amount of time printing out many sheets of A4 trying to enlarge my drawings to the correct size to fit the frame. Then after completing the first 2 panels I realised that I was getting the sizing wrong ( You will see a rod at the back of the window near the top of the octopus) and what was meant to ahppen needed a ba