Join artist James Cockerill for this innovative and hands-on glass course where you'll experience a broad spectrum of processes including silk-screen printing, kiln-firing enamels & stains, and creating stencils for exploring sandblasting, culminating in stunning finished framed works.
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.
Join 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.
Working 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.
A fast paced masterclass on Venetian style glass stemware. The course aims to provide 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.