The medium is oil on canvas board, and I painted it at a time when I was under the delusion that I'd be able to illustrate the entire epic poem of Kingdoms of Daaskmere. Eventually, though, I came to my senses and moved on to other projects.

But this painting endured: the only one (other than the cover art) that I completed for the poem.

Below is an excerpt from the originaly text, in which Father Andreas is giving young William a tour through Canterbuild Cathedral:

"And here we have come now to beautiful choir,/ Where voices do sing that to Heaven aspire./ And next comes the sanct'ary, look you a while,/ For soon you shall see the good Lord's holy smile./ His visage is there to forgive and give guide,/ 'Tis your sins He suffered for, bled, and then died./ And now in the morn as the apse comes aglow,/ It shines all around as His eastern halo.”

His words echoed sure through the high vaulted space./ They touched every ear on each glass-coloured face,/ And sounded a wake-up to all of its art,/ A message of light to give worship its start./ In gloried response did the sun come to bear,/ Burst o’er the horizon and through the cold air/ Did strike with a triumph the panes in its path,/ And rush to cascade in a radiant bath/ The giant enclosure that now was renewed./ With colour and light was the darkness subdued.