The Sistine Chapel Reproduction was one man's labour of love from beginning to end.  The spiritual experience balanced with the agony of the material experience.  Gary developed his own techniques which had him using 7000 screws to fix hundreds of 8ftx4ft plywood panels to the roof and then undercoating and priming the wood in emulsion donated by DULUX.  He developed a 'soot and tights' method to transfer the 500 figures sketched out on large paper onto the roof, which he then painted in acrylic. 

Originally, the plan was for the Ceiling to be a two year project.  This proved impossible.  The whole process took 5 years and Gary worked through sweltering hot summers and freezing winters, night, day and the early hours of the morning to complete it.

Three vents were situated along the ceiling which had to be filled in.  There were also six sets of hanging lights which Gary decided he had to remove rather than leave in the midst of the painting.  The first filled in vent and a set of lights can be seen in the photograph on the left. 

Since then, lighting and ventillation has been an ongoing experiment from uplights, spotlights, standard lamps and giant fans to just simply offering up the discomfort of the heat in summer during Mass.