Stephen Barry Hutton
Stained glass artist, author and award-winning poet, Waldorf (Steiner) teacher and community education tutor.
Glass cutter, soldering iron. Fountain pen, dictionary and pencil. Laptop and printer/scanner.
From the observation of both ordinary and exceptional people and nature as it unfolds in my daily experience of being alive. The bush and ocean and the lifeforms that inhabit both. And particularly the history of our Nation. Combined with a little madness.
Morning Birdsong. The poetry of Leonard Cohen and David White. The sea and mostly rain on a tin roof.
Major completed Stained Glass Window Commissions:
Tara Chapel, Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel. (2000)
St. Paul's Church, Waitangi, Paihia. (1998)
H.B. Williams Memorial Library, Gisborne. (1993)
Level 1 - Beehive, Parliament Buildings, Wellington. (1989)
Tolaga Bay Area School Library, Tolaga Bay, East Coast. (1988)
Currently writing an historical novel entitled Brownland Whitetide which follows the trials and tribulations of several fictional characters as they traverse the 73 years (1808 - 1881) that saw the birth of the New Zealand as we know it. From pre-European contact to Parihaka.
