Masterclasses
Courses
Masterclass: Hot and Cold, Colour and Surface – Neil Edwards
with Neil EdwardsWorking as a team combine glassblowing and coldworking techniques to create colourful patterning and surface texture in glass. Explore colour layering, engraving, sandblasting, cutting, grinding and assembly. A truly collaborative approach to glassmaking.
£795.00 / SOLD OUT
Masterclass: Advanced Pattern Making in Glass – Ian Chadwick
with Ian ChadwickExplore advanced pattern forming in fused glass over five days with glass artist Ian Chadwick. Working from Bullseye glass stringer sheets, you will expand your knowledge and experience of both kiln-forming and cold-working techniques to produce intricate, geometric, mandala-like patterns.
£825.00 / SOLD OUT
Masterclass: Lost Wax Without Wax – Advanced Glass Casting – Antonis Koutouzis
with Antonis KoutouzisExpand your technical approach to complex sculptural forms in cast glass. Create master moulds, produce silicone positives, and construct final refractory moulds with precision, control, and clarity, for a more accurate realisation of almost any shape for casting in glass.
£895.00 / Places Left: 4
Masterclass: Flameworking Glass for Jewellery – Katherine Huskie
with Katherine HuskieJoin Katherine Huskie for a playful introduction to creating glass elements for jewellery using flameworking techniques. Move, stretch and transform borosilicate glass and experiment with colour and form.
£450.00 / Places Left: 6
Mastering Layers in Cast Class – Brenda Page
with Brenda PageExplore the creative possibilities that emerge when glass becomes a three-dimensional canvas. Push beyond surface decoration and venture into the realm of layered glass construction, where image, depth, and light converge to create sculptural works of remarkable visual complexity.
£725.00 / Places Left: 6
Masterclass: Print, Stain, Blast & Bond – James Cockerill
with James CockerillJoin award-winning glass artist James Cockerill for this rare opportunity to experience how multiple processes - screen printing, sandblasting, kiln-fired enamels, traditional stained glass paints, silver and copper stains followed by plating, and UV bonding - combine to create richly layered glass collage.
£550.00 / Places Left: 6
Masterclass: P̢te-de-Verre Vessels РAlison Lowry
with Alison LowryTake a deep dive into Pâte-de-Verre glass making with artist Alison Lowry. Learn the unique process of creating glass works using ground glass, examining form, colour and adding interest with metal inclusions, reactive glasses and texturing.
£650.00 / Places Left: 2
Introduction/Refresher to Flameworking with Boro – Zoe Garner
with Zoe GarnerJoin Zoe Garner for an introduction or refresher to flameworking with borosilicate glass. Experiment with a range of techniques to manipulate boro rods to form globes, chains or sculptural components. This course is an excellent opener for Zoe Garner's 3-Day course 'Connecting Forms' the following day.
£170.00 / Places Left: 6
Masterclass: Connected Forms – Flameworking – Zoe Garner
with Zoe GarnerExplore the potential of flame-worked Borosilicate glass, drawing concepts and ideas from the movement of the material itself. You will transform glass rods and tubes into components using gravity, centrifugal force, blowing and manipulation with tools and then connect your components into assembled structures.
£675.00 / Places Left: 5
Masterclass: Murrine to the Hot Shop – Tabitha Burrill
with Tabitha BurrillDelve into the fascinating world of vitrigraph murrine with glass artist and innovator Tabitha Burrill. In an immersive three-day masterclass, you will explore both fusing and hot techniques, creating unique design elements in the kiln to be used in a blown glass vessel and more.
£950.00 / Places Left: 3
Masterclass: Hot Glass Mould Blowing – Sadhbh Mowlds
with Sadhbh MowldsJoin award-winning glass artist Sadhbh Mowlds and learn how to create and blow glass into a two or three-part plaster moulds in the hot shop. You will consider the different types of moulds and their functions and re-create objects or sculptures in glass.
£895.00 / Places Left: 4
Masterclass: What’s Past is Prologue – Marc Barreda
with Marc BarredaThis class invites you to explore the techniques of the past, and to consider how they might inform and inspire your own contemporary practice, style, and aesthetic in glassblowing. Glass artist Marc Barreda will lead you on a journey of dicovery through the tricks and methods of the past in the contemporary hotshop.
£895.00 / Places Left: 6
Masterclass: Venetian Cane Techniques – Dave Barry
with Dave BarryCreate Venetian style vessels using cane, with master glassblower Dave Barry. Practice pulling and rolling up cane, forming hollow vessels while absorbing techniques of production and teamwork. Students will each learn how to pull their own cane, then create supio to make a series of small cups to make into tumblers (cups).
£850.00 / Places Left: 5
Masterclass: Pattern-making with Powders – Anthony Amoaka Attah
with Anthony Amoaka AttahCreate textile-like patterns on glass using screen-printing and kiln forming techniques on this inspirational 4-day course with artist Anthony Amoaka-Attah. Brainstorm collective patterns in relation to cultural traditions and learn how to design your own textile pattern.
£725.00 / Places Left: 5
Fusing with the Wow Factor – Opal Seabrook
with Opal SeabrookExplore ‘Pop Art’ in glass with the artist Opal Seabrook. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to discover how to build colourful, graphic 3D artworks in fused glass. Opal will share with you the techniques she has developed over ten years evolving her unique style.
£550.00 / Places Left: 4
Masterclass: Hot Sculpting Form and Texture – Theo Brooks
with Theo BrooksAn exciting opportunity to study hot glass sculpture with Theo Brooks; from the basics of solid sculpting using a torch to creating larger, intricate, and composite sculptures. You will work with both blown and solid forms and cover surface qualities and texturing.