Piotr Frac, Stained Glass Artist

We are in the third week of our crowdfund and have raised £7,479 towards our target of £25,000, so we still have a way to go. Please check in the pockets of your winter coat and down the back of the sofa to see if you can help us get there. Click here to support our crowdfund to publish Sarah Ainslie’s WOMEN AT WORK . Happy in the crypt beneath John Soane’s St John on Bethnal Green of 1828, Piotr Frac works peacefully making beautiful stained glass while the world passes by at this busiest of East End crossroads. Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I visited Piotr in his subterranean workshop and were delighted to observe his dexterity in action and admire some of his recent creations. Piotr’s appealingly modest demeanour and soft spoken manner belie the moral courage and determination it has cost him to succeed in this rare occupation. This is to say nothing of his extraordinary skill in the cutting of glass and the melding of lead to fashion such accomplished work, or his…