Have you ever wanted to recreate the colours that inspire you into glass but not sure where to start or you might find yourself wanting a colour that is not available ‘off the shelf’? Ruth Shelley will guide you through the Bullseye colour palette with demonstrations, practical hands-on experiments and discussion. You will learn about layering colours and develop your own patterns to design and create a fused glass blank, proceeding to use heat and gravity to drop it through a ‘drop ring’. You can expect to learn how set up the kiln, understand how the glass stretches during firing and how to remove and 'coldwork' the rim, as well as have valuable information on best firings procedures. In addition, you will learn how to re-cycle offcuts of glass into new 'blanks' for dropouts.

Participants would need to have some previous experience of working with fused glass and come with five examples of their favourite colours that they would like to represent in glass.