Contemporary Leadlight Designs is a designer/ maker business, located in Logan Central, supplying leadlight products to the building, renovations, furniture and kitchen design industries. A full design service is offered, producing new contemporary or traditional designs, or pieces can be produced from designs provided by you.

Prices for work start at $750/m2 for simple designs, as shown below, left. More complex patterns such as the one below centre, cost between $800 and $1400/m2. Charges for custom design work such as shown on the right range from $1600 to $2000/m2, depending on the complexity of the design and the kinds of glass used.

Delivery. Generally please allow 2 to 3 weeks delivery time from when you place an order. Work can be delivered to your factory or collected from the workshop.

Phone: 3299 2416
Mobile: 0411 864 060
Studio: 70 Mayes Avenue Logan Central Q 4114
ABN: 43 567 473 280

Douglas Cartwright. From an early working life that included a short-lived apprenticeship as a chef, a term in the army as a radio operator and working as a machine operator in the construction industry, Douglas became an artist in 1991 when his interest was kindled by the chance discovery of a cardboard box full of oil paints on a demolition site where he was working. He took evening classes in painting, then went on to study painting and ceramics at the University of Tasmania's Hunter Street Art School.

At this time he learned the essentials of leadlighting and working with glass at a weekend workshop run by noted Tasmanian glass artist Christine Gulline. In 1994 Douglas came to Queensland in search of funding to continue his university studies - and never made it back to Tasmania.

Settling on the Gold Coast, he continued to paint, while the small leadlight pieces he made as a hobby in his spare moments gradually increased in importance until they had developed into a full-blown occupation. In 2002 Douglas and his partner moved from the Gold Coast to Logan, chiefly for its more central location. Around this time his intermittent contact with the Annerley Glassworx became more regular and he began working closely with them on projects large and small.

Douglas continues to paint occasionally - between his many other interests. His artistic practice is concerned with coaxing beautiful formal designs from the utilitarian tangle of power lines and street furniture that characterises the urban environment. His style is best described as rational hyper-realism, embodying clean lines, crisp edges and planes of pure colour. A selection of his paintings are on display at Pallaier Antiques, 770 Ipswich Road Annerley. HIs work is represented in the Gold Coast City collection, Bond University collection and numerous private collections in Queensland.