Martin Travers

At the RCA his teachers included Edward Johnston (calligraphy), William Lethaby (design), Arthur Beresford Pite (architecture), and Christopher Whall (stained glass).

Art historian Peter Cormack comments that Travers "translated the style of his graphic work into an urbane, eclectic idiom applicable to stained glass and several other forms of ecclesiastical decoration".

[3] Significant large five-light and tracery windows may be seen at St George's, Headstone, Harrow and the Great Hall of Christchurch Arts Centre (originally Canterbury College), New Zealand, installed in 1937 and 1938 respectively.

In the 1920s he designed and constructed a number of spectacular reredos for this constituency, often employing affordable materials such as plywood, whitewood, papier mache, embossed wallpaper, and tinted varnished foil to achieve the desired effect; which has meant that some of this work has not weathered well.

He contends that this is partly due to Travers being "essentially a two-dimensional artist": a quality evident in his carefully designed sanctuary arrangements, conceived as liturgical scenery for "the theatre of the proscenium arch".