On the clubhouse level of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, there is a stunning glass replica of the racetrack created by Craig Colquhoun. Using heat, metal, and glass, this master artist skillfully and successfully constructed 4,000 detailed glass pieces to fit inside the 30-foot racetrack sculpture.
Master of Glass Artistry
Churchill Downs in Glass
Churchill Downs Seating in Glass
Glass Horse Figureines
The Chapel of Peace in Hart Square windows display contrast. One has designed stained glass from the past, while the other has natural cobwebs.
Chapel Window
Cobweb on the Chapel Window
We end the series of images where the red color is clearly noticeable.
While a stained glass window in Chester Cathedral in Chester, England has many colors, the red color is predominant.
Red in Stained Glass Window
The Water Wall is reflected on glass windows on the south face of Williams Tower in Houston
Reflections of Houston Water Wall
Another view of stairs through glass of a building while walking the streets of Wilmington, Delaware
Walking on the streets of Wilmington, Delaware couldn’t resist capturing stairs inside the building with reflections of the trees and bushes on the glass.
Rain drops on a glass window trap a red leaf creating an artistic image
A glass with candles filters the light coming through its crystals creating an attractive image
Rain drops on a glass window create a natural design in a random pattern.
Chester Cathedral features high arches and stained glass windows reflecting its ancient architecture.
In Chester Cathedral, there are 34 windows in the cloister with 130 lights (sub-division of a window). Each window has at least one memorial and 147 local people are remembered in this way. Here are some examples. Art on glass is also depicted in other scenes such as the galleon below.
A few examples of the stained glass windows at Chester Cathedral, Chester, England.
The Chester Cathedral has unfortunately lost nearly all its medieval glass, although the fragments that remain give a tantalizing glimpse of what was once there. The Gothic cathedral of today was largely built in the 13th and 14th century. Most of the stained glass in Chester Cathedral dates from the 19th century with lovely windows. Here are images of a window from outside and the stained glass from inside.
The great west door of York Minster is a formal processional entrance but not used for the mass of tourists who visit the cathedral each day. The South Transept is the main entrance to York Minster. The famous stained glass of the Rose Window is above the entrance. This window was damaged by a fire in 1984.
Mosaic is a style of visual art that involves affixing many individual pieces of material called tesserae, typically glass or tile, to a surface to create an image. Unlike mosaics behind velvet ropes in museums, the scale and setting of these large-scale public works mean you can often get nose-to-nose with the art in the streets of south Philadelphia.
There’s a softer side to the Philadelphia – City of Brotherly Love — and it can be seen in the innumerable pieces of gleaming glass that comprise Philly’s mosaic art scene. The sparkling, multicolored side of a rowhome will stop you in your tracks. Innumerable tiny mirrors — reflecting the light and surroundings — lay in brightly painted grout, creating large-scale faces and figures. Here is an otherwise nondescript alley in south Philadelphia with many decorative art pieces. We will be posting examples of such art.
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located on 380 acres of rolling meadows, woodlands and lakefront property in Belmont, North Carolina. The William H. Williamson, III, Orchid Conservatory is the Carolinas’ only 8,000-square-foot, five-story glass house dedicated to a display of orchids and tropical plants. Our camera club – Catawba Valley Camera Club, Hickory – visited the orchid conservatory a few months back and we are posting images from that trip.
During our visit there was an art exhibition by local students – old doors and shutters painted with orchid artwork.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose was built in 1802 and has been the seat of the Catholic people of the city since. The large neoclassical church features a mix of stained-glass works.
Lighted candles create a diffused glow through designs in the glass
Glass provides a wonderful mirror to create unusual reflections. The first image is of reflections on glass from the sun shining on another building. The second image depicts reflections of architectural marvels of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
