Already have some glass making experience? Enjoy five intense but fun days at our studio to extend or refresh your skills. A range of techniques will be covered in all areas including glassblowing, fusing, casting and flameworking, together with discussion and expert demonstrations.
Join us for a weekend of glass fusing and explore a wide range of techniques to create your own designs in glass. Learn about glass cutting, assembly, inclusions, and kiln firing plus further techniques including slumping, drop-outs and powder techniques like fossil vitra.
Take 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.
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.
Discover the art of flameworking beads. Our experienced tutor will guide you through the fundamentals of flameworking (lampworking) using a torch. You will work from your own torch to design and make ten or more beads over the day, using a wide selection of colours and processes.
The ideal follow-on course to our one-day or half-day classes. You will learn the fundamental skills of hot glass sculpture to shape a flower and a bird - getting the feel of how to master this magical material, followed by a blown piece like perhaps a tumbler. In the afternoon expand your skills to create a bowl, or plate.
A great glassblowing 'taster' and introduction to the magic of glass. Through hands-on making you will gain first-hand insight into this ancient craft. You will gather hot molten glass straight from the furnace and shape into glass objects to keep.
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.
Discover the craft of glassmaking on our unique five-day glass summer school in rural Wiltshire. You will explore a whole range of glassmaking techniques including glass blowing, kiln forming, fusing, slumping, casting as well as flameworking with a torch. An unforgettable, hands-on, craft experience.
Discover what this amazing material can do by spending five whole days with us exploring a range of glassmaking techniques including glass blowing, kiln forming, fusing as well as beadmaking and sandcasting. The course will include talks and expert demonstrations. Come and learn, enjoy and share the art of glass at The Hub.