SAINT HILAIRE CHURCH OF GIVET - STAINED GLASS PROJECT "THE TREES OF THE BIBLE"
ALICE SANCEY PROJECT - 2017
Master glassmaker: Bruno Loire, Ateliers Loire, Chartres.
For the Givet church, whose architecture and location near the Meuse are remarkable, the stained glass windows bring light and warmth to the building.
The weft of leaded stained glass and the lines of grisaille evoke the drawing of plants and trees, a graphic design more alive than the geometrical weft and, from bay to bay, give a feeling of unity to the space of the church.
The weft of leaded stained glass and the lines of grisaille evoke the drawing of plants and trees, a graphic design more alive than the geometrical weft and, from bay to bay, give a feeling of unity to the space of the church.
The color appears as a light through this vegetable filter. It punctuates large clear surfaces.
The traditional technique - the use of colored antique glasses - makes it possible to obtain the most beautiful colors, the most vivid ones that are, while being perennial.
The traditional technique - the use of colored antique glasses - makes it possible to obtain the most beautiful colors, the most vivid ones that are, while being perennial.
Advancing into the Nef, the large bays will combine complementary colors, for example blue and yellow or blue-green and red, which in the middle of the white surfaces, will recompose a white light in the building: diversity and unity.
I chose a lightly colored atmosphere to highlight the sobriety and simplicity of architecture.
I chose a lightly colored atmosphere to highlight the sobriety and simplicity of architecture.
The stained glasses of the choir surrounding the altar have a dominant color which in reference to the liturgy, evoke each of the 7 sacraments, while maintaining a frame similar to that of the nave.
The eighth stained glass window, dedicated to St. Hilary of Poitiers, illustrates the Trinity on which this illustrious theologian built his work.
The evocation of a plant theme, on which I worked a lot, was imposed for this project by reading this sentence quoted about Saint Hilaire:
"The just grows like a palm tree and he grows up like a cedar of Lebanon. "
"The just grows like a palm tree and he grows up like a cedar of Lebanon. "
Alice Sancey Chartres, February 2017
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Givet 7 drawings |
