James Meechan

James Meechan (born 17 August 1930) is a Scottish-Canadian artist best known for his stained glass work.

To supplement his earnings from stained glass, and to support a growing family, he qualified as a secondary school teacher in the province of Ontario.

For a number of years he worked at Central Technical School, alongside Canadian artist Doris McCarthy.

Meechan played a key role in the students' creation of the colossal ketchup bottle in 1967, built to poke fun at Claes Oldenburg's giant hamburger which was then on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

[1] Most of Meechan's career as a teacher was spent at C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, where he was the Head of the Art Department from 1970, when the school was established, until 1986.