David Wilson's skylight fills the waiting area of this Brooklyn subway station with bright, clear light. The panels are framed in blue and the pattern in the panes consists of black lines and solid panels in geometric form, that echoes the aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement and leaded glass work from that era, but with a more contemporary interpretation. "I had been interested in the use of plastics and the possibility of 'leadlines' that are not feasible in glass —  thus the diagonal 'cuts' going to nowhere in the piece (i.e. stopping in the middle of a color)," Wilson says. "The project is a kind of architectural statement — a skylight set into a difficult environment (a steel I-beam divides the triangular window into two halves so that it is hard to read as a whole)."

Born in England and based in central New York, David Wilson is a glass artist and designer renowned for his successful collaborations with architects on large-scale projects. Wilson graduated from Middlesbrough College of Art with a National Diploma in Design and studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London before relocating to New York City to work for the Rambusch Decorating Company. Wilson went on to become head of their stained-glass studio before leaving to establish his own studio, David Wilson Design.