1. Glassmaking Taster
Activity:
Participants learn about the beauty and colour of glass while making a flat glass panel from coloured glass. There will be a glass cutting and hot glass demonstration before the colour and fun and designing begins.
The finished artwork is a brightly coloured glass creation that is assembled and fired to produce a flat glass panel. Gaining a fundamental understanding and appreciation of glassmaking is our aim.
Learning about a new material is an exciting experience seeing the varieties of colour combinations and realising the endless possibilities is exciting. Focusing on one design, immersed in the moment of creativity, you have the opportunity to make a keep sake that is festive and unique.
Number: 3 – 15 people
Time: 2 hours
Dates: By Appointment
For further details and bookings please visit our Studio Website - Refind
Result:
Kiln formed flat panel for framing. Design your own artwork.
- All materials for glassmaking workshop are supplied
- Your artworks are available after the high temperature fuse firing – ready for collection after 3-4 days
- Pre-made samples assist participants with the designing and glassmaking processes
- Participants must wear closed toed shoes and preferable casual clothes to work in the outdoor workshop
- Everyone must wear glasses to protect their eyes.
2. Kiln Forming
Activity:
Participants learn about the beauty and colour of glass while focusing on their individual design. The glass making starts with a glass cutting exercise, drawing experiences and finally drawing and assembling a brightly coloured art glass panel for fuse firing.
Gaining a fundamental understanding of glassmaking is our aim. Learning about a new material is an exciting experience seeing the varieties of colour combinations possible. Focusing on one design, immersed in the moment of creativity, you have the opportunity to make a keep sake that is festive and unique.
Dates: By Appointment
For further details and bookings please visit our Studio Website - Refind
Result:
Kiln formed low dish/platter. Design your own artwork.
- All materials for glassmaking workshop are supplied
- Your artworks are available after the high temperature fuse firing – ready for collection after 3-4 days
- Drawings completed on the day are for participants to take home
- Pre-made samples assist participants with the design and glassmaking process
- Participants must wear closed toed shoes and preferable casual clothes to work in the outdoor workshop
- Participants must wear glasses to protect their eyes
3. Bead Making
Activity:
Try your hand at hot glass, working with a flame more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, we start with simple exercises to learn about the hot glass process. Participants experience the fluidity of glass, how to add colours and different decorative techniques.
The glass making sessions starts with basic instruction about how to operate the equipment, followed by the first hot glass exercised, then onto bead making and finally finishing and assembling. Gaining a fundamental understanding of glassmaking is our aim. Learning about a new material is an exciting experience seeing the varieties of colour combinations possible.
Focusing on one design, immersed in the moment of creativity, you have the opportunity to make a keep sake that is immediately ready to string together. Created during the first workshop | return sessions allows you to refine your skills and increase the complexity of colour addictions to each bead.
Dates: By Appointment
For further details and bookings please visit our Studio Website - Refind
Result:
String of beads – various colours and sizes (dependant on participant skills and colour choices)
- All materials for glassmaking workshop are supplied
- Your artworks can be brought home with you on the day.
- Premade samples assist participants with the design and glassmaking process
- Participants must wear closed toed shoes and preferable casual clothes to work in the outdoor workshop
- Participants must wear glasses to protect their eyes
4. Hot Glass
Activity:
This workshop focuses on making hot glass and is a “hands on experience” suitable for small groups that want to see what it is like to work with hot glass. Blowing glass without a furnace is possible when you pick up pieces of glass, seal and blow. This is a new way of working with hot glass that has become popular with contemporary studio glass artists in recent years.
Participants will be able to experience what it is like to work with hot glass. They can feel the heat, learn the importance of turning the pipe with hot glass on the end and understand the skills required to make sculpt the glass. Each participant will have the chance to create a small vase or tumbler.
Working at temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, you will be getting hot in the ‘hot shop’. The hot glass making sessions starts with basic instruction about how to move around the studio, then we pick up sheet glass, apply colour and shape the glass to create a shape.
Dates: By Appointment
For further details and bookings please visit our Studio Website - Refind
Result:
String of beads – various colours and sizes (dependant on participant skills and colour choices)
- All materials for glassmaking workshop are supplied
- Your artworks will need to anneal (cool down slowly) and be ready for collection in 3-4 days
- Premade samples assist participants with the design and glassmaking process
- Participants must wear closed toed shoes and preferable casual clothes to work in the outdoor workshop
- Long sleeve cotton shirts and pant are highly recommended to protect from the heat.
- Participants must wear glasses to protect their eyes