November 2024

Masterclass: Colour Dropouts – Ruth Shelley

with Ruth Shelley

Have you ever wanted to re-create the colours that inspire you into glass but not sure where to start. Ruth Shelley will guide you through the Bullseye colour palette with demonstrations, practical hands-on experiments and discussion.

Tue 5 November 2024 - Fri 8 November 2024

£695.00 / SOLD OUT

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Masterclass: Collage for Kiln Casting – Georgia Redpath

with Georgia Redpath

From paper into glass - explore collage and paper sculpting techniques to create original relief models focussing on form and texture. You will then move on to mould-making techniques, using rubbers, and finally making the investment moulds which will hold and shape glass in the kiln.

Tue 12 November 2024 - Fri 15 November 2024

£695.00 / SOLD OUT

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Masterclass: Glass from Nature – Andrea Spencer

with Andrea Spencer

Take inspiration from nature on this three-day flameworking workshop. Using heat and gravity to manipulate glass in the flame you will learn methods and techniques to bend, stretch, sculpt and carve molten glass, creating sculptural objects, inspired by natural forms.

Wed 20 November 2024 - Fri 22 November 2024

£595.00 / SOLD OUT

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January 2025

Masterclass: Venetian Stemware – Dave Barry

with Dave Barry

Fast-paced masterclass on Venetian style glass stemware. Get a grounding in the technique used to blow delicate, thin-walled goblets. You will be taught how to use optic moulds, to create blown stems and blown feet, as well as working efficiently as a team. With demonstrations and plenty of hands-on learning, this course will push your glassmaking to new limits.

Thu 16 January 2025 - Fri 17 January 2025

£595.00 / Places Left: 1

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February 2025

Fusing with the Wow Factor – Opal Seabrook

with Opal Seabrook

Explore ‘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.

Wed 12 February 2025 - Fri 14 February 2025

£550.00 / SOLD OUT

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March 2025

Masterclass: Pattern Making with Powders – Anthony Amoaka Attah

with Anthony Amoaka Attah

Create textile-like patterns on glass using screen-printing and kiln forming techniques with artist Anthony Amoaka-Attah. Brainstorm collective patterns in relation to cultural traditions and learn how to design your own textile pattern.

Tue 11 March 2025 - Fri 14 March 2025

£725.00 / Places Left: 1

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Masterclass: Fusing doesn’t have to be flat – Nina Casson-McGarva

with Nina Casson McGarva

Create 3D sculptures using hot glass manipulation with traditional fusing techniques as a base. The emphasis will be on experimentation and is suitable for intermediate to advanced students who can embrace failure as being part of the learning curve in testing the limits of glass fusing.

Wed 26 March 2025 - Fri 28 March 2025

£625.00 / SOLD OUT

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May 2025

‘The Image Within’ Cast Glass Masterclass – Brenda Page

with Brenda Page

Join glass artist Brenda Page and learn how to incorporate images and pre-fused elements into cast glass. By joining both pre-fused and pre-cast elements, you will create works that are not possible with basic casting and fusing techniques alone.

Tue 6 May 2025 - Fri 9 May 2025

£725.00 / SOLD OUT

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Masterclass: Glass from Nature – Andrea Spencer

with Andrea Spencer

Take inspiration from nature on this three-day flameworking workshop. Using heat and gravity to manipulate glass in the flame you will learn methods and techniques to bend, stretch, sculpt and carve molten glass, creating sculptural objects, inspired by natural forms.

Wed 21 May 2025 - Fri 23 May 2025

£675.00 / SOLD OUT

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Masterclass: Venetian Cane Techniques – Scott Benefield

with Scott Benefield

Create Venetian style vessels using cane with internationally renowned master glassblower Scott Benefield. Practice rolling up and forming hollow vessels while learning techniques of production and teamwork. An intensive and immersive course.

Wed 21 May 2025 - Fri 23 May 2025

£895.00 / SOLD OUT

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July 2025

Masterclass: Playing with Fire and Colour – Bruce Marks

with Bruce Marks

London Glassblowing's colour expert Bruce Marks will share his extensive knowledge of the many ways of introducing colour to blown glass. Over three days explore a range of techniques of colour application using solid colour as well as frit and powders.

Fri 11 July 2025 - Sun 13 July 2025

£795.00 – £895.00 / Places Left: 2

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September 2025

Masterclass: Glass from Nature – Andrea Spencer

with Andrea Spencer

Take inspiration from nature on this three-day flameworking workshop. Using heat and gravity to manipulate glass in the flame you will learn methods and techniques to bend, stretch, sculpt and carve molten glass, creating sculptural objects, inspired by natural forms.

Wed 17 September 2025 - Fri 19 September 2025

£675.00 / SOLD OUT

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October 2025

Masterclass: Fusing with the Wow Factor – Opal Seabrook

with Opal Seabrook

Explore ‘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.

Wed 1 October 2025 - Fri 3 October 2025

£500.00 – £575.00 / SOLD OUT

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Masterclass: Murrine to the Hot Shop – Tabitha Burrill

with Tabitha Burrill

Delve 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.

Wed 8 October 2025 - Fri 10 October 2025

£895.00 / SOLD OUT

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Masterclass: Connected Forms – Flameworking – Zoe Garner

with Zoe Garner

Explore 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.

Wed 22 October 2025 - Fri 24 October 2025

£625.00 – £800.00 / SOLD OUT

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November 2025

Masterclass: Screen Printing on Glass – James Cockerill

with James Cockerill

Explore the exciting potential of hand-pulled, silk screen printing onto glass. Using traditional glass paints and enamels, you will build up layers of print to create stunning one-off works of art.

Thu 6 November 2025 - Fri 7 November 2025

£400.00 / SOLD OUT

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Masterclass: Devious Drinking Devices – Marc Barreda

with Marc Barreda

Discover trick glasses–a playful phenomenon of Renaissance Europe with glass artist Marc Barreda. Create new ‘trick’ designs and then build on techniques using contemporary tools and innovations. Through a spirit of curiosity and collaboration bring some mischief back into the hotshop.

Thu 13 November 2025 - Sun 16 November 2025

£895.00 / SOLD OUT

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December 2025

Masterclass: Hot Sculpting Form and Texture in Glass – Theo Brooks

with Theo Brooks

An exciting opportunity to study hot glass sculpture with Theo Brooks. Develop skills in solid and blown glass sculpting, add unique textures and surface patterns and learn how to build larger, intricate, and composite sculptures.

Wed 3 December 2025 - Fri 5 December 2025

£795.00 – £825.00 / Places Left: 1

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