This workshop is hosted over two consecutive Saturdays

9.00am - 4.00pm.

This course is offered at regular intervals throughout the year. Please choose your dates from the dropdown menu below.

Discover the artistic potential of working with deep glass in this exciting two-day workshop.

This course is ideal for those who want to focus on a larger, more complex fused glass project and who are eager to gain an understanding of deeper fusing as well as coldworking equipment and processes. This workshop will equip students with a range of new and more complex kiln-forming skills, whilst fostering each individual’s artistic direction in glass.

Students will be encouraged to draw on their own creative ideas, interests, and fused glass techniques to undertake a 10-layer block fusing project. The 2-day course will require students to consider colour, pattern, form, and composition as they create designs on Bullseye sheet glass, which will be fused in a stack to form an artwork featuring layers and depth.

Following block fusing, students will be introduced to cold-working glass techniques to grind, polish, linish, and engrave their finished block. These coldworking techniques and processes will be taught and executed on day two of the course.

Core Techniques:

• Block Fusing - how to build a deeper composition and prepare it for a successful firing process

• Layered design and colour composition

• Introduction to basic ‘cold working’ processes 

• Kiln Firing Schedules

• Health and safety

Materials provided:

• All tools (glass cutters, pliers, rulers, etc)

• All safety equipment (safety glasses, masks, gloves, etc)

• All artistic materials (Bullseye sheet glass, frits and powders, high-fire enamel, glass glue, drawing materials for planning, etc)

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this two-day workshop, each student will have the skills to:

• Create a layered block of glass (up to 10 sheets thick)

• Linish, engrave, hand-lap, and polish their glasswork and operate a range of glass coldworking machinery

• Integrate high-fire enamels

• Operate a kiln and program firing schedules

• Implement appropriate health and safety procedures