Through a glass brightly

THE Stained Glass Museum in Ely, Cambridgeshire, has acquired the last window designed by pioneering Irish Arts-and-crafts artist Wilhelmina Geddes (1887– 1955)—with the help of the Art Fund and the Arts Council England/v&a Purchase Grant Fund. Geddes created her designs for the Faith, Hope and Charity window in 1955— for St Paul’s Church, Battersea, London, now converted into private residences—which her friend and colleague Charles F. Blakeman used to make the window shortly after her death. ‘Geddes’s stained-glass works are rarely available to acquire, and her output was relatively small,’ explains director and curator Dr Jasmine Allen. ‘As Geddes’s final commission, it is also an important example of her later work and an interesting treatment of this subject.’

Renowned British photographer David Yarrow has spent decades capturing some of the planet’s most endangered species in their natural habitats; his new book, How I Make Photographs, published this month, details the path that led him to photography (he worked as a banker in the 1990s) and provides ‘a thorough masterclass in the art of creating artistic images with soul, depth and emotion’. Laurence King Publishing (£14.99)