Jude Tarrant, Four Seasons window (2015), Church of St Nicholas, Longparish, Andover, Hampshire.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Jude Tarrant, detail of Four Seasons window (2015), Church of St Nicholas, Longparish, Andover, Hampshire.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Church of St Nicholas, Longparish, Andover, Hampshire

Address

The Four Seasons window at the west end of the south aisle

Recommended by

Peter Hildebrand (20)

Highlight

The Four Seasons window at the west end of the south aisle

Artist, maker and date

Jude Tarrant, 2015

Reason for highlighting

A special window for cricket lovers, who grew up reading reports of The Times, cricket correspondent John Woodcock. The new window marks the 250 year association of the Woodcock family with the church.

Inspired by the nearby river Test, the window meditates on the cycle of life as it moves through the seasons from winter at the bottom to autumn at the top.

Other comments

An important aspect of local and national history is represented in a window in the north wall of the nave in memory of Major Lanoe George Hawker, VC DSO. He served in the Royal Flying Corp and was shot down and killed in aerial combat with ‘The Red Baron’ in 1916. The window was designed by Francis Skeat and installed in 1967.

An interesting glimpse into the early life of Jude Tarrant and fellow Bradford born artist, David Hockney is available at Not Just Hockney – David Hockney

Artist/maker notes

Jude Tarrant (b.1957) was born in Eccleshill, Bradford and studied politics at Portsmouth University. She discovered her ‘vocation’ in stained glass when her husband-to-be brought home a discarded painted stained glass window. Suddenly there was the option to combine a lifelong interest in drawing and art, with a desire to use hands on craft skills. While largely self-taught, she also benefited from working with the glass-painter, Harold Thompson, who was working as a stained glass artist at Chichester Cathedral. Since then her career has blossomed with work on a wide range of new commissions, both secular and religious, as well as conservation work. She remains in Portsmouth where she works at Sunrise Stained Glass Studio, with her husband.

Sources:
Jude Tarrant’s website
Not Just Hockney – Jude Tarrant