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This exhibition is in celebration of

Patrick Reyntiens’ 86th birthday.

Patrick was unable to join us, as he fell

last week and broke his hip.

I’m sure you will join us in wishing him

a full and speedy recovery.

December 2011

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Patrick Reyntiens OBE was born in 1925into a very different world. Best known forhis collaboration with John Piper, withwhom he worked for over 35 years, he isan extraordinary artist whose contributionto stained glass, as an innovator,practitioner and teacher is now being giventhe credit it deserves. As Sir Roy Strongputs it ‘There will be a re-discovery ofReyntiens as an artist of considerablestature in his own right’.

This collection of panels gives an insightinto the rich world of Patrick’s imagination,populated with an unlikely combination oflandscapes, especially those of ruralSomerset, where he lives, mythologicaland fantastical bodies, people seen on histravels; the rich imaginings of a life welllived and a mind well read. Patrick isalways drawing, usually in sketchbooks,and these panels have the vitality ofimages unconstrained by the demands ofa patron or a specific commission.

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107 Just Smell my Flowers! £795 43 x 39 cm

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the headmaster of Eton, and for his, at thattime, unfashionable, focus on craft andpractice, combined with his inexhaustibleenthusiasm for, and knowledge of, thehistory of art and architecture.

Patrick was working for Eddie Nuttgens in1954 when Sir John Betjeman, a familyfriend of the Bruces, introduced him toJohn Piper. Commissioned by the GrocersCompany to make windows for OundleSchool Chapel, Piper was looking forsomeone to translate his designs intostained glass. Patrick made the journey toPiper’s house near Henley on his Vespa,the trial panel held between his knees.Piper was pleased with the result, and agreat partnership was born. Between themthey transformed stained glass into amodern medium. In many of their greatestworks, they are co-designers, most notablyat Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (1962-7), where their breathtaking windowsinspired by Patrick’s reading of Dante wererecorded in the Shell film ‘Crown of Glass’.

The son of a diplomat, Patrick spent hischildhood in London, Scotland, Brussels,and Devon, before going to school atAmpleforth. He studied at EdinburghSchool of Art, where he met his future wife,the painter Anne Bruce, and where their lifemodel was a young Sean Connery. Patrickand Anne, who died in 2006, had a longand fruitful marriage, with four children,and a wide extended family, including thefamily they formed around the innovativeart school they ran at their homeBurleighfield House in Buckinghamshirebetween 1964 and 1976. Students camefrom all over the world to study stainedglass, printmaking and ceramics, leadingglass artists Danny Lane and Ray Kingwere students; Barry Flanagan worked inthe printmaking studio and sculptureexhibitions in the garden showed WilliamPye and others. A generation of studentsremember his time as head of fine art atCentral (1976-86), for the lunches hehosted for students and the likes ofPeregrine Worsthorne, Brian Clarke, and

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Patrick’s own commissions includewindows for the National Cathedral,Washington DC (1969), and SouthwellMinster (1996). Since working with hisson, John, Patrick has designed and madewindows for churches all over Britainincluding the Henry Moore MemorialWindow, Much Haddam (1995), the greatSouth Transept at Ampleforth (2002), andTaunton (2010). In 2009, at the age of 84,Patrick collaborated with Graham Jones toproduce a set of windows for St Martin’sChurch in Cochem, Germany. Thisimportant commission was the inspirationfor the new documentary ‘From Coventryto Cochem: The Art of Patrick Reyntiens’(2011).

Each of these numbered panels is unique,the hand-blown antique glass selected andpainted by Patrick. Each tells a small story,a testament to an exceptional talent.

Dr Charlotte Grant writes on contemporary artand on 18th century literature and visual culture.

The glass panels are best viewedwhen lit from behind and have beendesigned to be hung against awindow or to stand on a window sill.Each panel is provided with twohooks on the back to allow hanging.

DISPLAYING THE PANELS

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To order telephone 01572 821424

4 No Harness; no Harness! £395 19 x 28 cm

2 I've Slipped, I've Slipped! £395 25 x 28 cm


10 Wet Weather; Let's Swim! £395 25.5 x 25 cm

8 Puzzled in the Tube, £495 30.5 x 24 cm

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3 Oh Lumme is this the Hand of God! £395 25.5 x 30.5 cm

65 Ooh! What a Monument, £495 25.5 x 38.8 cm


51 Into the Cave with the Cows! £595 25.5 x 34 cm

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12 Rabbit in the Rhubarb, £395 19 x 28 cm

14 Put it Up! Put it Up! £395 24 x 26.5 cm

6 Ooh! The Fish! £495 23 x 30.5 cm

5 Oh Listen to me Pilgrims, £495 30 x 28.5 cm


11 Oh! Sleepy, Sleepy! £395 21.5 x 33 cm

1 The Gothic! £495 32 x 22.5 cm

19 Swim Baby as You Only Know How, £395 21.5 x 24 cm

7 Through the Desert, £495 21 x 35.5 cm

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76 Somewhere in Arizona? £495 21 x 30 cm

64 Horrible Dreams, £495 25 x 33 cm

101 Exercise Tires, £695 26 x 38 cm


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25 Jewellery on the Tube, £395 29 x 28 cm

21 Oh Relax, Relax! £395 16 x 28 cm

20 Romantic and Dangerous, £395 20 x 36 cm

17 You Must Believe Me! £395 23 x 28.5 cm


88 A Walk in the Park, £495 24.5 x 32 cm

80 A Lonely Land, £495 25.5 x 33 cm

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87 The Big Stones, Standing, £595 21.5 x 33 cm

89 All's Ok! £495 24 x 31 cm

58 The Tree and the Hill, £395 24 x 27 cm

58 Untitled, £275 17 x 28 cm


34 The Sacred Mountain, £395 18 x 26 cm

28 Goodbye Goodbye, £395 18 x 26.5 cm

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23 A Good Bridge! £695 32 x 35 cm


26 A Church in the Country, £795 32 x 40 cm

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24 Into the Desert! £495 26.5 x 26.5 cm

96 Let's Straighten your Tie, £595 25.5 x 34 cm


42 In the Middle of the Coral, £495 24 x 28 cm

49 Not Quite the Owl or the Pussycat, £395 26 x 22 cm

59 Too Wild to Swim, £395 18 x 37 cm

104 Hick, Hack, Hock! £395 16.5 x 28.5 cm

41 The Insects in One's Life! £495 24 x 29 cm

44 Under the Ocean, £495 23 x 31 cm

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38 Woman Asleep, £395 22.5 x 33.5 cm

37 Oh! What a Dream! £495 25 x 31 cm


71 Don't 'Barrier Reef' Me, £395 24.5 x 26.5 cm

43 The Earthquake, £495 25.5 x 28.5 cm

62 Wild Birds in the Wet, £395 24 x 28 cm

66 They'll Save us from Atoms! £595 26.5 x 31 cm

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36 A Beautiful Bay; Away Away! £695 31 x 36 cm


22 He'll Not Come Back, £495 32 x 29.5 cm

33 Oh! The Tsunami, £395 21 x 31 cm

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29 Fish, Fish, Fish! (And a Lobster), £595 31 x 37 cm

30 Away in Africa, £495 24.5 x 30.5 cm

78 Oh the Freedom of the Air, £395 22 x 25 cm


67 A Wild Way in the North! £495 24 x 29.5 cm

72 Let Him Sleep, £275 17 x 25.5 cm

61 The Brain's Alive: and Well? £495 30 x 29 cm

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77 Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going? £495 27 x 30 cm

79 Balloons, Balloons, £395 20 x 26 cm

84 Pretty Pony, £395 18 x 31 cm

82 Country Sheep, £395 21 x 28 cm


31 It's an Ocean isn't it? £495 30 x 27 cm

32 The Wind in the Willows! £395 27.5 x 34.5 cm

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45 We'll go Everywhere! £495 23 x 32 cm

39 So Lovely; Relaxing in the Summer! £595 29.5 x 36 cm


98 A Real Medieval Castle! £795 31 x 35 cm

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97 Martha's Sausage Roll, £395 23 x 25 cm

100 Hadrian's at it Again, £395 19.5 x 30 cm

102 Chinese Gardens, £495 28.5 x 21 cm

103 An Awful Nightmare, £495 23 x 39 cm


54 It's a Nice Sort of Garden! £495 24.5 x 27.5 cm

55 Is this a Chinese Restaurant? £495 24 x 28 cm

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86 Oh! The Seas, the Seas, £495 29 x 29 cm

85 The Waves! £495 25.5 x 27 cm

To add a unique panel of Reyntiens stained glass

to your collection telephone

01572 821424

visit reyntiensstainedglass.com

The panels offered here were created especially

for Goldmark by Patrick Reyntiens to celebrate his

86th birthday. They were made at Reyntiens Glass

Studio by John Reyntiens.

Each numbered panel is unique, the hand-blown

antique glass selected and painted by Patrick. Each tells

a small story, a testament to an exceptional talent.

A new film documentary on Reyntiens by Charles

Mapleston is available from Goldmark,

price £15 plus p&p.

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Goldmark Gallery Orange Street, Uppingham, Rutland01572 821424Monday-Saturday 9.30-5.30, Sunday 2.30-5.30 and Bank Holidayswww.goldmarkart.com

There will be a re-discovery

of Reyntiens as an artist

of considerable stature

in his own right.

Sir Roy Strong

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