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Alf Webster: Glasgow’s Lost Genius, David Robertson

Composite image showing stained glass conservation work. Left: two close-up shots of a stained glass window, one vibrant and colourful, the other darkened and damaged. Right: a conservator in a green jumpsuit lifts a large, arched stained glass panel from a church window frame during restoration.

Alf Webster: Glasgow’s Lost Genius, David Robertson

Composite image showing stained glass conservation work. Left: two close-up shots of a stained glass window, one vibrant and colourful, the other darkened and damaged. Right: a conservator in a green jumpsuit lifts a large, arched stained glass panel from a church window frame during restoration.

David Robertson describes how Alf Webster’s great south transept window, currently awaiting restoration, contains imagery to suggest that William Blake could have been an inspiration both illustratively and thematically for the artist.

David Robertson is the Director of Four Acres Charitable Trust, the owners of Cottiers and a Trustee of Websters in the West End of Glasgow, soon to be completed by its sister charity FACT THREE.

Alf Webster: Glasgow’s Lost Genius, David Robertson

Composite image showing stained glass conservation work. Left: two close-up shots of a stained glass window, one vibrant and colourful, the other darkened and damaged. Right: a conservator in a green jumpsuit lifts a large, arched stained glass panel from a church window frame during restoration.

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