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Aire Castle Stained Glass
artists will build a custom window to your specifications and
measurements. Aire Castle is prepared to originate custom
patterns, specific to your needs, reproduce your company logo,
family crest, or other design at your request. We take a great
deal of pride in our custom stained glass. We build windows
of any practical size and can ship to any location in the
Continental U.S.A.
For
other stained glass artists, Aire Castle Stained
Glass Art will take your list of needs, your ideas, photographs,
drawings, or whatever you have to work with and develop a
totally original custom-designed stained glass pattern. Our design will have
structural integrity and we will recommend attractive
well-balanced colors & textures of glass.
(*Art
takes time to create. Aire Castle Stained Glass Art may offer
target dates to complete projects, but will never commit to a
fixed time frame that will jeopardize the quality of the
project.)
Aire Castle Inn
is founder, host and home of
Amber-Light Art Guild
of Western Kentucky.
(Inquire about membership & meeting times)
(No classes for students
under 18 unless a parent is present at all times)
Art Gallery
We create custom
Custom Patterns for Glass Projects
Custom Designed Windows
Stained Glass Tools &
Supplies
Stained Glass
(Wholesale-Plus Pricing)
Stained Glass Art Lessons
Work-Table Space (by-the-hour)
Shipping: Aire
Castle will ship patterns and finished windows to any location
in the Continental U.S. and Canada. Customers are responsible
for accurate measurements and shipping.
Glass and Supplies: Aire
Castle Stained Glass Art
maintains a reasonable inventory of sheet
stained glass and will
order glass, tools and supplies for customers at wholesale cost
plus insurance, shipping & boxing charges, plus a 20% up-charge.
This normally saves our customers from 25% to 30% off of normal
retail.
Create Your Own: Aire
Castle students first create a five-piece butterfly as their
first project. This teaches the student how to handle glass,
choose colors and textures, fit glass to patterns, score, run
(or break) glass, grind, fit, clean, foil, solder, patina and
polish a stained glass
piece. This normally takes about four hours. Then, students will
spend the rest of their time creating a window that will be
about 12 inches by 15 inches, or up to 14 inches by 16 inches (size varies according to pattern
selected by the student).
Rent Work Space : For new
stained glass artists
living close to Aire Castle who do not have shop space, we will
rent table space in our studio for creating windows and other
projects by the hour. Call to inquire about rates.
*Structural Integrity - In
stained glass art, creating a pattern that is designed in such a
way that one piece of glass fits in a way to support another and
another, and so-on, to provide strength to the window, or
whatever the project may be. Also, support bars, "strong
line", rigid came and other materials may be incorporated to add
strength. (These methods are taught in
our classes)
**Slumping - (As referred to
here) The process by which gravity causes stained glass windows
and other projects to "bow", bend in an uneven fashion and
otherwise collapse, or fall apart due to poor structural
integrity. Slumping can be a result of over-exposure to outdoor
elements, degradation of materials used, poor design, poor
workmanship, or a combination of the above. Lead will oxidize
over time, unless sealed, or otherwise protected.
(Preventive techniques are taught in our classes)
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The Stained Glass
Guru
This group of
stained glass windows are but a few of the many projects created by Nancy
Driver (Mike's mother). Mrs. Driver has a collection of windows
in three local churches. The Carrousel Collection
pattern angels above, once on display in our former bed &
breakfast, are now displayed where
she lives, except for one which hangs in Kilkea Castle Suite. Always artistically gifted,
now in her late 70's, she continues
to create stained glass art and teaches other residents where
she lives. Our family lovingly refers to her as our "Stained
Glass Guru".
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Nancy Driver's largest
project: Original design, "The Cross", one window, 8
1/2 feet tall by 4 1/2 feet wide. Installed at Symsonia Baptist Church, Symsonia KY.
Estimated value = $10,000.
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