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The Education window (detail). One of twenty stained glass windows commissioned for St Mary's Cathedral, Portland, Oregon, 1995-8. 5ft x 15ft. Detail size approx 16in wide.

Photo: © Nicholas Whitman 1998

Debora Coombs Stained Glass

I design and paint stained glass windows for architecture, exhibitions and collectors. My work has been commissioned for schools, libraries, hospitals, religious buildings, private homes and a traditional English tea shop.

Religious projects include twenty stained glass windows for St Mary's Cathedral in Portland, Oregon, USA on the themes of American saints, cultural diversity and the sacraments; and two 25ft tall figurative windows for Marble Collegiate, Norman Vincent Peale's church in New York city.

During 2007 I designed 48 new stained glass windows; exhibited 7 new works in Kidspace @ MASS MoCA, (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art); taught workshops; gave lectures; and helped 78 Vermont elementary school children to paint a stained glass window.

I'm currently working on a series called Menfolk for a solo exhibition of stained glass that will open in London, England in 2009, and a scheme of non-figurative windows based on the rosary for a newly renovated Catholic church in the USA.

Debora Coombs
Summer 2008