Artist · Maker · Specialist Fabricator
Work in stained glass, light and structure.
Selected projects and collaborations by Richard Paton, from the first full-scale drawing to the final installation.
About Richard
Four decades working with glass, colour and light.
Richard Paton is a London-based stained-glass artist and maker. His work ranges from architectural commissions and specialist fabrication to collaborative and experimental projects, combining traditional stained-glass skills with an interest in how colour, material and light shape a space.
More about Richard →Selected projects
Recent work
01 / V&A East Museum · London · 2026
Towards a Civic Museum
A large site-specific window that turns a collaborative artistic proposition into glass, lead, paint, engraving and light.
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02 / Private commission · 2020
Stained Glass Conservatory
An extraordinary year-long commission of 300 individually identifiable butterflies, made in stained glass for a conservatory roof and three large double doors.
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03 / Blackpool Central Library · 2011
Blackpool Central Library Windows
Eight monumental windows, each two by three metres, made in three months using traditional stained glass and a wide range of specialist glass techniques.
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04 / New North London Synagogue · London · 2015
A Hymn to the Creator of Light
An intricate stained-glass interpretation of an 11th-century Hebrew hymn, realised through flashed glass, etching, painting, firing and leadwork.
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05 / St Martin in the Bull Ring · Birmingham · 2015
Craigie Aitchison Chapel Window
Craigie Aitchison’s final church-window design, translated into a luminous fused-glass panel for St Martin in the Bull Ring.
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06 / Damien Hirst commission · 2016
Damien Hirst Skull Windows
A three-year series of stained-glass skull windows combining painted mouth-blown glass, copper foil and thousands of Swarovski crystals.
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Made from drawing to installation.
Projects develop through full-scale drawing, glass selection and cutting, painting and firing, leading, metalwork and installation. The project pages follow that process as well as the finished work.
See the making process →Commissions & collaborations
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