3rd Millennium Artists use a rebus of a mole, thrown from a Somerset roadside verge at Christmas 2000 in the tumult of a storm.
Tumbling, the mole presents the emblem of courage and vulnerability at the threshold of the 3rd Christian Age, and at the moment of creation.
Asclepios, the Mole God of healing, lives in the earth in quiescent space. From the earliest age, this chthonian animal has been endowed
with curative powers, violate energy and reforming wisdom.
The mole heals and guides initiates with its extraordinary strengths from a physical plane, bringing them out of the earth onto a spiritual plane of restoration and well-being, further guiding the soul to practise random kindness and welcoming acts of beauty.

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S.Eliot.
Wycombe Theatre Company designs for lantern and knights shields to make Becketts' illuminated Tomb.

Illuminating Faith

The studio of the 3rd Millennium Artists is dedicated to producing individual designs in stained glass and promoting the conservation and restoration of our country's stained glass heritage.
We are working artists with the additional skills of graphic promotion, sculpture, mural design, theatre design and of educational programmes for children and adults in stained glass. We also have a shop and are able to attend craft fairs.
Within the presentation of these two pages we demonstrate our ability to meet a considerable variety of practical and spiritual needs in this demanding age of the Third Millennium.
If we are asked, 3rd Millennium Artists have the ability to give our skills freely in the promotion of creativity.

To commission stained glass or restore a window we will provide a report, full colour design and presentation for approval.
Review and alterations are negotiable.

3rd Millennium Artists are able to commission musical composition from two young composers and short film making projects.

 

Selected work in glass:

1) Restoration of the Arab Hall windows, Leighton House, Kensington, London.
2) The Epiphany, Robinson College, Cambridge, (design, John Piper)
3) The Resurrection, St Edward the Confessor, Chandlers Ford (illustrated above)
4) The Creation, High Wycombe Hospital Chapel
5) American Independance Window, All Saints, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
6) The Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit, United Reformed Church, Gerrards Cross
7) Puliar, Averinos and Eurynome 'Star' exhibition panels using dichroic glass
8) William Tyndale Window, (Concept and Setting), Hertford College, Oxford
9) John Piper Memorial, St Mary the Virgin, Iffley, Oxford
10) Millennium Chilterns Window, Holy Trinity, Lane End, Buckinghamshire
11) Dove of Peace, Commissioned by Bruce Kent
12) The Victory of Achilles, Private window, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire

Current Restoration of glass includes ferramenta and defender screens at Iffley, Oxford, St. Margarets and St. Andrews, Uxbridge and Christ Church, Reading.

Contribution to books: The Beauty of Stained Glass (Patrick Reyntiens) 1990, John Piper and Stained Glass (June Osborne) 1997, Design Source Book (Lynette Wrigley) 1998.

 

David Wasley MA. ATC. DipAD. FMGP. is an artist and maker of coloured windows and an elected Fellow of The British Society of Master Glass Painters.
He studied painting at the Central School of Art and Design and at the Royal College of Art, specialising in sculpture and printmaking working with Cecil Collins and R.B. Kitaj.
Later he joined the studio of Patrick Reytiens O.B.E. for seven years and made studio windows to John Piper's designs.
Since 1984 he has been making his own studio glass and painting. The concept of 3rd Millennium Artists began in the year 2000. Its aim is to promote random kindness and welcoming acts of beauty.

David's long-term objectives for 3rd Millennium Artists is in the production of two television programmes "Illuminating Faith" - The life of Joseph of Arimathea who after the crucifixion came to Glastonbury as a refugee from Palestine - and the Life and Work of Artemidorus of Daldis.
David is also a shepherd and would like to recover the lost Buckinghamshire Sheep first bred by John Treadwell in 1857.
A painting 'IAUS PERENNIS' in continuous praise is in progress as an inducement of the second coming.
God is man helping mankind and this is the glorious road to eternity.

Richard Molineux BA is an artist and creator of coloured glass windows. Studying at Harrow and Exeter he specialised in illustration, but in the search for pure colour he was seduced by the brilliance of coloured glass.
He has worked with glass since 1990, before the formation of the 3rd Millennium Artists and endevours to inspire with patience and beauty.

I woke one morning with this word given to me in a dream. Later to my surprise an unopened sarcophagus lay in the British Museum. I have made this word up and dedicate its use as a keyword for a symbol or emblem that stands for a dream; a Clef de Songes or a Key to dreams. Artemidorus (Daldianus) was a man in the reign of Antonius who wrote a learned work in the divination and interpretation of dreams. These books are available today. The 'Oneivocritica' key to dreams was a book found amongst the possessions of the painter El Greco. The book is a singular fantasy of late Hellenism which created a foundation for psychology. Dreams have played an important part in the substance of Christianity and have helped to illuminate faith in the Old and New Testaments.

 

A Discussion on Painting

"Beauty is a vision of the absolute shining through the sensuous medium"

The gallery of lively designs on these two pages is a product of continuous, sustained painting. The subjects, Joseph of Arimathea - The Artemidoric Image and my interest in the life and work of Perugino are embedded in my heart. They represent 'ideas'; migrating birds that appear and disappear across the immensity of time. Time is made not lost in painting representing the initiative of recovery.
I believe Joseph and William Blake walked the shoreline of Steepholm in the Bristol Channel. The engraving of 'Joseph on the rocks of Albion' and the watercolour of 'Dante and Statius sleeping on their pallets' is convincing; so is the discovery of Blake's designs for an 'Elegy in a country church-yard' at St. Giles, Stoke Poges. If Blake crossed the threshold of this church two hundred years ago, I have missed him, but it was he who tapped me on the shoulder and whispered words of encouragement when I was given the opportunity to make a beautiful window dedicated to 'The Family' in this ancient Saxon foundation.
The picture of a dove is the parent of the child who is engaged in a 'Search for Meaning'. It is similar to the apocryphal story of the boy Jesus entertaining his friends by making animals out of watery clay on the banks of a river. A picture of a boy who became a man deeply engaged in creativity - a measure of hope symbolic of all our shared experiences.
The painters who have shared their knowledge and love of painting I can count on more hands than I have fingers.To this day I can hear Adrian Berg chastising and questioning, because for a whole term I had not made a mark with a paintbrush, "David I admire you for your restraint!"

Apocryphal animals. The boy Jesus making a dove.

Weston and the Mendips from Steepholm.

Glastonbury Tor

 

Averinos, the Morning Star

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3rd Millennium Artists