James Dodds glass window

Marine painter James Dodds has designed a stained glass window for the annexe of St Mary’s Church in Wivenhoe, on the River Colne on the English east coast. The east window work is called Dove and Blue Boat and has been made by Andy Brooke and Pascale Penfold, a four-year project overseen by the church organist Graham Wadley. The featured boat is “a type that would have been built locally, a type that James helped build when he was an apprentice boatbuilder”, the church says.