AN EXHIBITION celebrating York’s most talented stained glass artists will open for one final day before the new year.

The Stained Glass Centre’s inaugural exhibition Light In The North: Modern Glass-Painters of York will be on display at the church of St Martin-cum-Gregory from 10am to 1pm on Saturday.

Curated by a team of volunteers from the University of York’s History of Art and Stained Glass Conservation courses, the exhibition is organised to celebrate the Stained Glass Centre’s launch of its new Friends Community.

The exhibition features the work of artists Harry Stammers, Harry Harvey and Sep Waugh.

Sarah Brown, senior lecturer in History of Art, said: “In the days of austerity after the Second World War, Dean of York Eric Milner-White persuaded renowned stained glass artist Harry Stammers to establish a stained glass studio in York. Stammers arrived in 1947 and never left, thereby re-establishing York’s pre-eminence in British stained glass at exactly the same time as Milner-White was leading major restoration projects at the Minster.

This exhibition features the work of Stammers and his erstwhile assistant Harry Harvey, and also designs by Sep Waugh, who trained with Harvey before establishing his own studio in York in the 1970s.”