Stained Glass artist and conservator

Charlotte Roden is an independent glass artist and stained glass conservator based in Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. She designs and makes bespoke stained glass and conserves historic windows, taking on projects of every scale. She has won awards in both design and conservation from the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, the historic London livery company for the craft: she was Commended in the Stevens Competition for Architectural Glass 2019 and received the Award for Excellence 2016.

After completing an MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management at the University of York, she worked in studios across the UK, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and France on both new glass and conservation projects.

She holds Accredited Conservator status from the Italian Ministry of Culture, sits on the Conservation Committee of the British Society of Master Glass Painters (BSMGP), and is a board member of Corpus Vitrearum Italy.

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cameo process acid etched stained glass. hydrofluoric acid. meilkle and sons. dissertation by Charlotte roden

Charlotte’s Master’s dissertation was titled “The ‘cameo process’: the twentieth-century acid-etching technique by William Meikle and Sons in Glasgow, Scotland”. The cameo process was developed primarily as a solution to the paint loss issues of the nineteenth-century while also encompassing the Arts and Crafts Movement’s wish to celebrate the qualities of glass without the dulling effect of glass paint. A flashed glass was acid-etched to achieve graphic and clear details of faces and drapery which, even at close quarters, is difficult to distinguish from glass paint. The article is available here:

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The last of the stained glass Krakow / Katowice photos... and a dotty horse 😍
Some more photos from Krakow #Krakow #stainedglass
I was honoured to present at the 32nd International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, Research on Stained Glass: History and Methods, and at the 13th Forum for the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass, Historical Techniqu
✨ One down, two to go 🤞🏻 -stained glass conservation - corpus vitrearum - krakow - stained glass conference - Thanks @camails for the photo 🫶🏻
Today I visited Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland to spend time with its extraordinary stained glass. The Corpus Vitrearum Conference will start tomorrow and I wanted to get a feel for Krakow’s heritage in stained glass before the confer
Little stained glass oranges 🍊✨ I loved making these small orange roundels — bright, cheerful pieces to hang in a window or on a wall. They were made by hand using coloured glass, lead and copper foil, combining the traditional leaded staine
Glass in the sand ✨ After finishing the painting, but before making these pieces into roundels, I took them to the beach to photograph them. I loved seeing the glass against the sand — the texture, the light, the strange little contrast betwee
Close-up details 👁️ A closer look at the stained glass eyes. This series started as an exercise in portraiture: trying to understand how much expression I could create with painted glass, grisaille, enamels and light. Up close, the details become m
Stained glass eyes 👁️ I made these as an exercise in developing my portraiture technique, focusing especially on the eyes. What I didn’t want to do was paint a set of pretty, glamorous eyes. I wanted to try to capture something more human: b
Glass, light and flight ✨ A few more views of my stained glass currently on display at @aeroportonicelli, the historic Art Deco airport on the Lido di Venezia. Nicelli still has such a strong identity: elegant, unusual, full of atmosphere, and unli
Office / 4th century baptistry 🤗 [fvg, italy, stained glass conservation, heritage, 4th century]
Stained glass at Aeroporto Nicelli ✨ I’m very happy that some of my stained glass work is currently on display at @aeroportonicelli, the historic Art Deco airport on the Lido di Venezia. It is such a special place: one of a kind, quietly excl
Meet Nicole ✨ My newest stained glass portrait, made using traditional techniques that have been used for at least a thousand years: handmade glass, lead, grisaille and enamels. I’ve been slowly tweaking my own practice in portrait-painting sin