"Inner Space", 1978 Ely Stained Glass Museum	"Birds of Paradise" (detail), 1997 Private House, Oxford	"Maiden with a Book of Hours", 1978

Paul San Casciani likes to explore the decorative possibilities of stained glass, combining traditional and modern techniques in novel ways. His speciality, traditional glass painting, allows him to design and create work in any traditional style for ecclesiastical or secular settings. Glasspainting combined with enamelling produces highly-wrought, unique panels with a wide range of subjects; portraits, initials, heraldic shields, zodiac signs, famous scenes... for celebratory occasions. However, his greatest challenge is combining traditional and modern glasspainting, copperfoiled inserts of specially-made jewel-like glass globs and fused pieces into windows, autonomous panels, free-standing sculptural pieces, lamps and wall plaques.