This commission is for three ground-floor Reception screens for a new housing development.

Sited in Orchard Place, the designs depict apple trees and blossom superimposed on cross-sections of drawings of sixteenth-century boats, referring to the history of the location and Southampton’s maritime heritage.

To provide a three-dimensional effect, the imagery will be screen-printed and acid-etched on three of the four faces of the double-glazed units, which are expected to be installed later in 2005.

The windows illustrate the essential qualities of the steel industry, with which Splott had a long association through the East Moors steelworks, which finally closed in 1978.

The Foyer windows are based on enlarged images of “the boil” in the molten steel bath, viewed through the charging door. Along the bottom runs a magnified core-section of steel, showing the production of steel billets running hot through the rolling mills.

Framing the central images are views of the stockyards and the arch-plant. Above the ground-floor windows are images of furnace charge doors and ladles.

The running hot steel bars motif is repeated in the first-floor window, which leads on to a more atmospheric design, incorporating scenes from the pouring process.

This gives a chimney-like effect, and can also be read as the familiar smoke on the skyline.

The windows total 23 square metres and the work was completed in 1990.

This commission was for six windows around the main entrance to the Company’s newly-built offices in Ocean Way, near the old Cardiff docks.

The imagery represents the sight of a schooner passing the windows, showing sails, rigging and mast.

I used a combination of German opal and French “flashed”, “antique” glass, which have been acid-etched. The windows were installed in March 1998.