Maria Ludwika Ulatowska McClafferty
Was born and educated in Warsaw, Poland, studying art at Warsaw University and in Rajastan, India. It is within the field of civil design and construction projects, working with glass and various metals, that she established her reputation internationally as one of the foremost exponents of this artform
In 1981 she turned to decorative glass as a medium with permanent pieces being installed internationally. In the U.K works that can be seen include: The Rose window at Alexandria Palace, panels in the Great Hall, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, bronze and glass for the Egyptian Hall at Harrods (now with English Heritage Preservation Order), and additionally the fused, sculpted lamps and Pharoah heads in the escalator hall at Harrods. A panel at the Museum of Stained Glass at Ely Cathedral, a. large glass wall at Linford- Bridgeman Museum in Lichfeild and large sand blasted panels for Princess Square, (Glasgow) and Monument Mall, (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) shopping centres.


McClafferty's commissions include massive works, such as the Rose Windows at Alexandra Place in London, which is 10 metres in diameter. On this work, she pioneered a combination of solar reflective glass and coloured antique and iridecescent glass within an original Victorian frame.

As well as completing :this impressive range of public art Maria has also produced innumerable private commissions including work for Liberty, the Duke of Wellington, A.S.Byatt, and other prestigious clients.

Her work has featured in trade and consumer publications world wide and in the U.K including; The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, House and Garden, World of Interiors, Expression magazine and the Caribbean Island Life. Maria has also been interviewed for the BBC World Service, by M.B.C for satellite broadcast and by Grenadian Television.

Currently, Maria is working in the beautiful Caribbean island of Grenada where apart from pioneering strategies and developing new expression through a more intimate manipulation of the glass for the contemporary art glass she has been able to work in the most cherished ancient art of stained glass producing monumental stained glass windows for the local cathedral and churches.

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