Teresa Maria Reklewska

Graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Art in 1956. During the next 2 years she studied at the National School of Art and Sacred Art Studio in Paris (Jacques le Chevalier). Later up to 1972 she painted at this studio her own projects and created by herself stained glass windows (approximate. 250 sq.m.). At the end of staying there wins the first prize in the International Competition for the project to Virgin Mary Cathedral Church in Wroclaw,Poland. Due to the work connected with the competition of a/m project returns to Poland and organizes her own studio. Since 1975, trains many students in basic technologies of creation of stained glass windows. Besides some talented students were tutored in drawing, painting and composition arts. In 1976 was awarded with the first prize for Sacral Art in Poland.

The artist says:

"The experience with artistic tapestry convinced me that creative ideas come into being during work in studio, that the material inspires the final work.
I have learned in the stained-glass studio that enchantment over color and glass texture stimulates monumental composition, and one's task is to make the utmost creative effort at every stage of making stained-glass.
I make stained-glass in four stages. A design is only painter's vision. Rich drawing with lead makes compact, rigorous construction. The choice of every piece of glass is decided upon intuition and experience. The painting of colored glass with metal oxides is the skill of covering of some of its parts in order to obtain deep tone and strong color. These four stages together give the final form of stained-glass which artist achieves during realization. In the work so understood a dividing line between artist and artisan becomes obliterated."

Works:

• St. Martin's Church, Warsaw (1960-1961);
• Church of Our Lady's on Piasek Church, Wroclaw, Poland (1964-1966);
• Stained glass for swimming pool, Ascona, Switzerland (1966);

• St. Margaret Church, Nowy Sacz,(1976-1981)
• Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, Katy Korytnickie, Poland (1979-1981);
• St.Wojciech's Church, Wroclaw (1981-1982);
• Our Lady's the Queen of Poland Church, Anin (1983-1984);
• St. Andrzej Bobola Church, Warszawa, (1984-1991);
• Shiba School in Tokyo, Japan (1993-1995);
• Kumagaya Police Headquarter, Japan (1995);
• St Francis Xavier Church, Kanda / Tokyo, Japan (1996-1997).