✨ Treasure Hoard: The Tom Denny Tisbury Window
For this glass, this work of art, is not just for the believer, the in-crowd, the participant - but it’s also for ordinary people like me.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The Medieval Stained Glass at St. Mary and St. Barlok, Norbury
...the real magic is knowing that we are seeing the same light in the same space as the same people that installed it in 1306.
St. Mary and St. Barlok, Norbury in glorious VR
A hidden gem in Derbyshire in VR
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 June 2026
In many ways the process of painting felt like a pilgrimage - throwing up its challenges and yet leading me into a deeper understanding of the people behind the glass.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 May 2026
For a moment, the world stopped feeling closed to me. The contract with the present felt renewed. And I found myself thinking - with unusual clarity - that I will never give up on this world while places like this, and the people capable of making them, still exist within it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 April 2026
The service is coming to an end. I can tell by the rhythm and the tone of the minister’s voice rather than the words. I look at the strangers sat around me and ask myself, ‘where do I fit in with all of this?’
St. John, Tisbury in Glorious VR
The Denny glass and an aerial VR.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 August 2025
And having spent so much time absorbed in the optics of photography, it was on my journey to Carlisle, in my encounter with the window there, that I realised how singular this medium is to our isles...
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 4 April 2025
And then, without warning - a chiaroscuro. The landscape delivers its crescendo: the spire of the Marble Church piercing the firmament from a brace of gargoyles, that project above a dip in the distant Clwydian hills.