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Susan Jones @welshlassy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Saw this piece at the weekend and it is AMAZING!

Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Just completed, after quite a dilemma over what size and material the stand base should be (clearly Goshawks are opinionated about these things!). She/he (colour shifting Lamberts glass) is available immediately, DM for details. But, y’know, I’m not in a hurry… #stainedglass #goshawk

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thanks John - painting the blossoms to keep this glass piece light and airy… clear baroque glass andPebeo 160, a mixture of translucents and outliner (for texture)

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Outside it is snowing loudly sideways. Inside, the studio is lit with spring…

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Yesterday I was reminded of this #art piece I was commissioned to make a few years ago, extending the boundaries of stained #glass by setting Little Grebes (aquatic #bird species) in an open-edge panel to represent the habitat where they are most free… Should I make more like this?

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Would you mind my posting a picture or two? I won’t tag you (unless you’d like me to of course) but I’m working on ideas for a couple of other ‘edgeless’ pieces at the moment 🤔

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Lovely to hear from you! Thank you so much - I was just looking at my photos of the grebes a couple of days ago, and wondering how they were getting on 😀

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Hi Tracey - thank you! The base is Snowdonia slate, from a quarry just outside Blaenau Ffestiniog. I work with a local engineering shop when I need stand armatures, they are very good at shaping weird bits of steel to precise plans 😂

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A joyful moment that never gets old: someone loves my Godwit enough to offer the ultimate accolade to an artist - to take it home! #art is a piece of soul made visible, in metal and stone and #glass. Welcome to my heart-family, unknown friend- and enjoy the effects of light on the glass…

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you love #glassart or #birds or are already following my #art (hi and I love you) the SWLA @ Mall galleries opens next week, and my Black-tailed Godwit #sculpture will be there - online preview (sculpture page - scroll down for the Godwit!) here buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/swla-2025/?_...

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Thank you so much! I’m looking for a public display opportunity for them, hoping they might help people to see these amazing birds just a little differently…

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Birds in stained glass, freestanding #art or wall sculptures, rarely window panels. My birds are celebrations, explanations, rants and sometimes tears; but like the birds that inspire them, they are all beautiful dancers-with-light…

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I create birds in stained glass, mostly as freestanding or wall sculptures, rarely as window panels. They may be celebrations, explanations, rants or tears but like the birds that inspire them, they are all beautiful dancers-with-light…

“We Were Angels” four Herring Gull kinetic sculpture in stained glass, hanging from a gold-leaf and gemstone icthys frame

Black-tailed Godwit, stained glass sculpture in flight, on show at SWLA natural Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries in London end October 2025

“Kierkegaard’s Clowns” large double-layer stained glass sculpture featuring four Atlantic Puffin in an island seascape

“Critically Endangered” Slender-billed Curlew, imagined in transparent and translucent textured stained glass

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A few more pictures of “We Were Angels”, just because…

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Latest kinetic sculpture “We Were Angels” available to buy or exhibit - I love it in my home, but it seems selfish not to offer others the chance to enjoy the light glowing from these birds…

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Current WIP and a previous super-seabird for #superseabirdsunday

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Some pieces come together quickly, and some take a few iterations to grow to maturity. The Herring Gulls piece, “We Were Angels”, gathers towards its finale; glowing with a little sunlight as I adjust the hanging points and sight lines to make sure they balance each other.

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

As the Yule (star)dust begins to settle, tomorrow will be a good day to get back into my studio and pick up my stained glass #WIP ‘Urban Angels’ once more. They are still burning in my head and heart and hands, not quite fully materialised just yet…

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Jack Monroe @jackmonroe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Someone needs to invent some kind of online calculator whereby we Brits can put in our recent healthcare appointments/meds/experiences and it’ll calculate what it would cost on average in the USA. Just to hammer home how bloody lucky we are to have the NHS and how fiercely we need to protect it.

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

£2 a card, any number of any design (I have a series of cards using photos of my glass birds too!). Free postage in the UK!

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It’s #wrensday and I am in my happy place (the ordered chaos of a #glass studio with -erm- about 3 pieces in development..!). Here’s a contribution to the day (blank greetings cards available!)

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This stained glass Black-tailed Godwit on a carved slate stand is available. He stands 45cm/18” tall (& just a little more than that toes-to-bill-tip). This pattern will be a numbered edition of 10 (although every #bird is always unique because #glass). DM for price and shipping options.

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Black-tailed Godwit : he’s a big lad!

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thank you! That’s me - never knowingly under-detailed… 😂

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It was huge fun to make - and totally inspired by that *perfect* glass… I was trying for the look and feel of a plate in an old bird guide, those lovely paintings where the birds *just happen* to be showing you all their ID features by accident 😊

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A piece from a couple of years ago - I can’t get the Waxwing glass any more but this was fun to make 😊

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This sphagnum sink is now heading into its second winter, and I so love the way the mosses change from green to deep maroon as the year chills…

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

In true multitasking style, this weekend involved a lovely long rustling walk (beech leaves and Brambling), design work on a Herring Gull piece, forward planning for a Goshawk piece, design work on an Orchidarium (so I can grow some high-humidity miniature lovelies) and cheesecake. Keto cheesecake.

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Mostly good, thank you! Science side of work is spectacularly busy right now, but the siren call of the studio gets louder when I’m not here enough. Must. Put. Self. Through. Photocopier..!

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hello, I’m Rachel, an ornithologist working for a UK NGO, and an artist working in stained glass (also birds). Orchid grower, reader, slave to a rescue Afghan hound called Tilia

Black and Tan Afghan Hound posing on a sofa

Stained glass Snow Bunting on steel marram-grass stems, mounted on a marble block

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Rachel Taylor @fidhw.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I make stained glass sculptures (mostly of birds, sometimes other things), and I have space for a little commission work this winter. Shipping worldwide (slightly depending on size!)

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