The Design is based on classical Roman lettering, as exemplified by Trajan’s column in Rome.

The Latin text is from Gifts For The Monastery, the work of the Venerable Bede, the sixth-century monk with significant historical connections to Sunderland, and reads across the windows, commencing on the first floor and continuing on the second.

The windows have been designed in small sections of colour to accommodate the size of glass produced by Hartley Woods, and the letterforms have been applied to the coloured glass using a silk-screening process. The work was installed in 1995.

This commission, installed in October 1993, was for four sandblasted screens separating the central issue area from the children’s library from one side, and the fiction library on the other.

The screens were designed in a series of arches, to reflect the gothic architecture of the building.

The collaged designs were assembled from photographs of brass bands, boys’ bands and the indigenous cotton industry, together with images from African, Indian and Chinese cultures, all taken from the library’s local history section.

These were woven together to reflect the cultural diversity of the region, and to represent the cotton weaving process.

This commission was for two screens, each 1400mm by 1600mm, situated at the entrance to a new library, each depicting a single screen printed oak leaf.

The screens were designed subsequent to a day’s workshop at Bromley Heath School in Bristol, the subject of which was “bringing nature in” and which focused on images of leaves and local flora.

The screens were installed in May 2003.

The four windows, installed in 2002, illustrate chronologically the history, religion and industry of the Amman area.

The first window illustrates an extract from Culhwch ac Olwen – Hela’r Twrch Trwyth from Llyfr Coch Hergest, written in about 1390, the first historical reference to Ammanford and the Amman valley.

The second window (right) is a verse from an untitled hymn by the socialist and political visionary, Watcyn Wyn (1844-1905). The third window depicts an extract from the poem Yr Hen Gwm (The Old Valley) by Amanwy, the pseudonym of David Rees Griffiths, brother of Secretary of State for Wales, James Griffiths.

The design for the Junior Library Screen combines elements found during the archaeological excavation on the site of the new Library.

The swirling pattern is adapted from a medieval plan of the kitchen hearths, made from roof tiles laid on edge, side by side. The central frieze includes images of a deer, a musician and an acrobat. These have been adapted from portrayals on medieval tiles, the deer from a fragment found in the Old Bishop’s Palace, Lincoln.

The screen has been sandblasted, enamelled and, in some places, gilded to add animation, and was installed in January 1994.