Rosalind Grimshaw

Rosalind Grimshaw FMGP is a Stained Glass Artist living in Clifton, Bristol looking towards the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Grimshaw has had Parkinson's disease from her early 30s.

Personal life

Grimshaw, nee Neuberger, was born in 1945 and brought up in London. She married John Grimshaw in Africa. Then they settled down in Clifton, Bristol, in a commune-style five-story Georgian town-house. After having their fourth child, John told her he had quit his full-time job to found 'Cyclebag' (now Sustrans), a cycling charity.

A colleague of Grimshaw, Patrick Costelo, who was a Stained Glass Craftsman, moved in to the house. Although John Grimshaw had an affair, he felt Rosalind and Patrick were more of a couple than Rosalind and himself. John and Rosalind divorced and John moved out. Later on, Patrick and Rosalind were lovers.

In 1983, Grimshaw discovered she had Parkinson's disease. This has not daunted her, with results as the large windows in the refectory in Chester Cathedral.

Stained Glass

Grimshaw trained in the stained glass studio of Joseph Bell and Son in Bristol, founded in the Victorian Gothic Revival. Her art attracted a lot of interest.[1]

Her Parkinsons was getting worse, so the family opened a workshop inside her house.[2] Her masterpiece though was winning the completion to design the Six Days of Creation in the refectory in Chester Cathedral.[3] There was a book about it.[4][5]

Grimshaw is now mainly doing fused-glass work.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://stainedglassmuseum.com/collections/07L4.htm
  2. ↑ http://issuu.com/rwabristol/docs/rwa_art_winter_2012_www/42
  3. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/elder/4713557/My-triumph-over-the-tremors.html
  4. ↑ Six Days: The Story of the Making of the Chester Cathedral Creation Window, Aug 2003, ISBN 978-1901970333
  5. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2003_29_tue_03.shtml
  6. ↑ http://www.bsmgp.org.uk/catalogue.php?action=detail&id=22
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