Michael Coles is a British stained-glass designer and maker active in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work includes ecclesiastical stained glass, typically produced for parish churches, where clarity of iconography and legibility within the architectural setting are prioritised.

Coles’s designs are generally conservative in idiom, drawing on established Christian iconography rather than experimental abstraction. Figures are clearly delineated, compositions are orderly, and colour is used to support narrative and devotional focus rather than pictorial effect. His work sits comfortably within the continuation of post-war English stained-glass practice, where modern materials and techniques are employed in service of traditional imagery.

This Annunciation by Michael Coles, employs a modern idiom characterised by bold colour fields, simplified figural forms, and strong symbolic geometry. The sweeping arcs of yellow and blue organise the composition into a single visual field shared across both lights, unifying Gabriel and the Virgin within one symbolic space rather than separating them narratively.

The treatment is overtly contemporary, favouring abstraction and colour symbolism over naturalistic setting. The window reads as a confident modern intervention, clearly distinguishable from the older glass elsewhere within it's church while remaining legible within a liturgical context.