Evening - Make Your Own Glass Tile
August 06, 2025 (18:00)
You'll will make your own expression of art on glass tiles as you explore ways of expression through this resonating material. Glass has held our fascination since time immemoril. It's beauty and function creates a symbiotic connection that has been known for millenia.
Fusing Basics In Glass
October 19, 2025
Fusing Basics In Glass
October 20, 2025
Morning - Organic Beads
October 25, 2025 (11:00)
New bead shapes, manipulating the materiality of glass to create expressive beads organic in design.Organic beads are focal, and take center stage. You will be working on: 1-making componsents such as encased stringer, latticino and using frits. 2- Creating flattened shapes as your base bead. 3- Embellishing and decorating the bead via the components you have made. 4- Seeing how it can be incorporated into a finished piece.
Evening - Fossil Beads
November 19, 2025 (19:00)
Observing nature from fossils and remnants of the past we will be working to create elements that evoke fossils in a contemporary approach. This workshop will encourage you to: 1- Look at techniques to create that weathered feel by choice of glass and colors. 2- Work with blown glass shards. 3- Work with frits in various methods to add depth. 4- Create a Fossil Bead
Friday (Evening) - Dots & Surface Patterns in Beadmaking
November 21, 2025 (19:00)
The mighty dot is one of the most used motifs for design, tesselation and in glass, dots act and behave in wondrous ways. Basic dots, raised dots, stacked and layered are a few of th beads you will experience making.
Evening - Beadmaking Taster (Private Sessions)
November 22, 2025 (11:00)
A two hour beadmaking taster for newbies.
Morning - Gravity Beads
November 22, 2025 (11:00)
Beadmaking in glass is a little bit of physics, chemistry and art. Rotation, parallel handling , gravity and heat all come into play. Particularly in this technique, whereby all the above takes place and in particular gravity. You will learn how to manipulate the glass with heat and gravity to create beautiful striations and shifts in color and patterns.
