Light reflections at home and abroad

• • Anna won the Richard H. Driehaus Preservation Award for metal and glass work in 2019
• • She has made interventions on Uppsala, York and Naumburg cathedrals among others
• • She is the author of Glazing on White-Washed Tables, 2013

Anna Santolaria masters the delicate and fragile art of glass-stained window conservation and contemporary creations among scaffoldings. She opened Vitralls Can Pinyonaire, her own atelier in Girona, in 2014. She had just returned from England where she graduated with an MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management from the University of York. Anna has since been dedicated not only to conserving endangered architectural glass pieces in Spain and abroad, but also to advocacy of this craft’s preservation. Working mainly for ecclesiastical and municipal institutions, Anna has collaborated with stained-glass conservators in England, Germany and Sweden. Far from the rigour of conservation, she also creates and collaborates in contemporary stained-glass design projects where she finds the freedom to experiment with the versatility of refracted light – which is what she has always admired in architecture.