Benjamin Finn Stained glass Artist and conservator

The Artist

Benjamin Finn, born in 1964, in Worcestershire, initially studied marine biology at university, but after deciding to change direction he took a two year diploma course at Central School of Art, Holborn, London, under Amal Ghosh, followed by a year as a Caroline Swash Fellow

In 1992 he married and moved to Essex. In 1995 he approached Friends of Friendless Churches about using a local church under their care - St Peters Church, Wickham Bishops - as a studio.
They agreed to this and work was carried out in 1996 to further conserve the building and to make it usable as a stained glass studio.

Benjamin has since worked there producing new stained glass works for churches, houses, schools and for exhibition, and repairing and restoring glass in the East Anglian region.

Andrew Fawcett

Andrew is an artist specialising in "historic" methods such as Fresco painting, Scraffito, Gilding and stained glass. He works as a glass conservator with Benjamin and has assisted in other projects produced at St Peters.

    

The following publications are those in which Benjamin has featured:

• August 1992"Stained Glass" The Magazine of the British Society of Master Glass Painters - Profile.
• September 1992"Stained Glass: An Illustrated History" by Sarah Brown, publ. by Studio Editions - frontispiece illustration: - "The Spirit of God Moved Over the Face of the Waters"
• December 2000 "The Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters."
• December 2000 "Country Living" magazine -profile.
• October 2002 "Dodo" by Errol Fuller, publ. by Harper Collins
• October 2002 "The Stained Glass of London" - a guide, by Caroline Swash
• December 2006 "Advent" magazine