About Me
I am Amanda Winfield. In 1980 I attended Medway College Of Art and Design for a years Foundation course in Art and went on to Chelsea School of Art, London to study for 3 years in Mural Design and Public Art. This course was fantastic, a mixed media fine art based course which allowed us to study printmaking, textile design, fine art painting and drawing, technical drawing, sculpture and of course glass.

I left Chelsea in 1984 and was very lucky to secure a job as assistant to Set Designer Tom McPhillips who went on to found the company Atomic Design in the States. What great training, we designed sets for bands on tour, shows in the theatre and work for television including children’s TV and advertisements. As assistant to Tom I learnt so much about working to deadlines, striving for the best for the customer, realising the design and how to enjoy work!

In the spring of 1986 I joined Goddard & Gibbs Studios in London as a trainee. When I left Goddard & Gibbs in 2002 I was their Studio Manager, responsible for all the stained glass work that came through their studios.

Since that time I have been developing skills and styles using the vast store of knowledge that working in such a busy studio has afforded me. It’s been a very busy and exciting (and at times frustrating!) time for me. I have been working in all aspects of stained glass, leaded and resin bonded; and I have embraced warm glass work with great enthusiasm and love the direction my design is taking now.

Glass is a very exciting and thrilling medium, those moments of holding up a panel to the light for the first time or opening the kiln in the morning are always well worth all the work put in on the previous days. What a thrill!