People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
–Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Nightglow-- GC Myers 2010
I was having trouble describing what I saw in this painting, Nightglow, so I went looking for other people’s word to help me. I came across this quote from Kubler-Ross, the famed psychiatrist who pioneered the study of death and dying and introduced the Five Stages of Grief to us.
It’s a simple quote and a simple premise- that we are measured not by how we behave when things are at their best but by how we rise to face obstacles and problems. How we gather light in the darkness and how we reflect it and give off our own light.
One always hopes that they are the one who gives off the light, that they possess the ability to shine brightest at the darkest moments. Perhaps it’s just a romantic notion of a heroic quality that evades most of us. But we can, and should, aspire to such a quality. It is far too easy to respond to darkness with our own darkness. We see this every day, in so many situations, and continue to stumble through the murk.
Light will show us the way through darkness every time.
Redtree Times 
Funny that I’ve not thought until now how beautifully some of you work could be reproduced in glass. Imagine Nightglow as a stained glass window in a church – far more evocative of mystery and the numinous than a flock of sheep or angels with badly proportioned wings.
I was approached several years ago from a glass artist who wanted to try to replicate one my paintings in cast glass. It never came about but, being from an area where glass is king and has been an influence on my work, I have always had that in the back of my mind. Someday…