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York Art Workers' Association - 1st Dec 2008
Helen Whittaker will be speaking at the Annual General Meeting of York Art Workers' Association at Jacob's Well, Trinity Lane, York, YO1 6EL.
Helen's lecture will seek to demonstrate why "light is her source, stained glass is her story and sculpture forms a connection." |
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Rugby & District Art Society programme 2007/8 - 4th June 2008
Rugby & District Art Society will receive a lecture by Helen Whittaker : Artist in Stained Glass. The programme announces:-
"Helen is primarily an artist, but her medium is glass. Through her drawing and colour skills she creates pictures with light. Much in demand throughout the country she recently completed a window in Rothwell church. She will show how she develops and makes her creations." |
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Prayer Tree installed at York Hospital - Christmas 2007
The Prayer Tree is a nine foot high sculpture fabricated from copper and stained glass. It was installed in the Chapel of York District Hospital just before Christmas 2007. Helen Whittaker's design is inspired by the form of a leaf from a tree of Heaven. The tree has prayer hooks along its veins so that visitors to the hospital can leave prayers for their loved ones. |
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ITV Breakfast Programme - 16th December 2007
Frank Dobson MP in conversation with Keith Barley and Helen Whittaker from Barley Studio as they discuss their work on Fairford Church, Gloucestershire and Holy Trinity Church Rothwell, Northamptonshire.
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Feature in Craft & Design magazine - Nov/Dec 2007
Craftsman's Craft & Design magazine has a "Spotlight on Glass" in issue 194 for November/December. Part of the feature focuses on "Helen Whittaker and Stained Glass at Barley Studio - preserving and creating the nation's arts and crafts heritage in the 21st Century." |
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Dedication of new stained glass window - 27th October 2007
Helen's Whittaker's commission for the East Window of the South Aisle at Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell, was dedicated by Archdeacon of Oakham, Rev. David Painter on the 27th of October 2007. Helen also addressed the assembly about the theology within her design of the window and its subject matter. |
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Commemoration window for Josephine Butler - 1st January 2007
A new stained glass window at St. Gregory the Great Church at Kirknewton commemorates the life of social reformer Josephine Butler, marking the centenary of her death. The Bishop of Newcastle formally dedicated the window and sculpture at St Gregory the Great Church in North Northumberland on 31st Dec. 2006. Barley Studio's artist, Helen Whittaker, developed her design principles for the window and sculpture with local community groups, schools and the Parochial Church Council. The sculpture comprises a symbolic sculpture composition of bars, bind weed and lilies and the stained glass window contains a fitting epitaph, "she loved, she prayed, she endured". |
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Prince of Wales' Craft Scholarships Scheme launch - 25th Oct 2006
Prince Charles, president of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, talks to stained glass artist Helen Whittaker during the launch of the new Prince of Wales's Building Crafts Apprentices Programme at Clarence House, London. The initiative responded to the Heritage Training Group's findings that thousands of more traditional craftsmen and women are needed to repair Britain's historic architecture, as well as respond to growing demand from the new construction sector. |
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"The Tent" at St. Ethelburga's - 5th May 2006
The Prince of Wales met members of nine faiths inside a Beduin tent which forms part of St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in the City of London. The window frames and stained glass were manufactured and installed by Barley Studio, York. "Prince Charles inaugurated the exotic new centre for interfaith dialogue - an intimate, 16-sided structure designed by Professor Keith Critchlow to represent sacred geometric and astrological rather than religious symbols".
by Michael Binyon, The Times, Friday May 5 2006 |
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