The Brian Clarke mosaic for the From Life to Life, A Garden for George. At the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London.
The garden was conceived and designed by Olivia Harrison and Yvonne Innes. Brian collaborated with the design and fabrication of a sinuous coloured path that unwinds through the garden and reflects the various stages of George Harrison's life. From Liverpool to enlightenment.
Brian Clarke's new architectural installation for Apax Partners in Jermyn Street, London was completed at the end of November 2007.
The work for their lobby includes a backlit stained glass screen and a large multi panel work on canvas.
"Hovering There", 2007, oil on canvas, 330 x 360 cm.
View into the lift lobby.
This image shows an early model visualisation.
Detail from the painting.
Brian Clarke has designed and produced the stained glass apex for the latest and most striking building on the skyline of Astana, the new capital city of Kazakhstan. The steel and glass pyramid was officially inaugurated on Tuesday, 12th September 2006 by the 2nd Congress of World and Traditional Religions.
Clarke's glass artwork is 900 square metres in area. It surmounts the pyramid and forms the apex of the structure, a building by Architects Foster and Partners. It is the latest in a long collaborative history between Lord Foster and Brian Clarke.
The pyramid has been designed to be a global centre for religious understanding, the renunciation of violence and the promotion of faith and human equality. In keeping with these aims Brian Clarke's apex glass depicts a flock of white doves in flight set against a background field of vivid blue and gold.
The composition uses artistic themes that Clarke has evolved through his work concerning the transillumination of light through naturally membranous materials such as petals, leaves and feathers. Like these materials the glass and composition manifest the same emotive beauty with stunning effect.
The space directly beneath the artwork houses a circular cradle that will be a meeting chamber for international religious Leaders. With vast white doves directly over their heads the delegates will inevitably be reminded of their responsibilities to harmony and world peace.
Architect: Foster+Partners
Brian Clarke's design for the Great South Window at Ascot's new grandstand is inspired by and based upon the passage of sunlight through English oak leaves. Like a forest canopy it forms a protective and gentle filter of colour and a vital part of the architecture of the Grandstand.
The completed window would be one of the largest stained glass artworks in the world. Here it is visualised at night on an architects elevation drawing.
Architect: HOK Sport, London.