Workshop programme
All workshops are currently at my studio in Oswestry on the Welsh borders.
Work with me to make your own glass sculpture! When you commission a piece from me, you can choose to come and share a day workshop with me, during which we will make your artwork.
These workshops include:
- Working with you to design the detail of the work: what's important to you...
- Showing you how to build the component parts of a glass sculpture
- All materials, safety equipment and tools
- Helping me put your artwork together - or doing it yourself if you wish
- Moulding the bed of the kiln (it can be casting sand, or flat, as needed)
- Use of my kiln (a long coffin kiln, able to hold works up to one foot by six feet)
- Discussion and chat and experimentation with other techniques
- The firing itself - which can take up to 3 days
- Delivery and fixings for your sculpture
These workshops are only limited by what will fit within the kiln: two six-foot monoliths, or four three-foot sculptures, a single panel or up to five smaller ones. If you want to share a workshop with a friend, that's OK - I can accommodate up to three people.
All workshops run from 11am to 5pm, with a break for lunch.
Casting glass takes time - for my sculptures, a three-day firing is about the average. You are more than welcome to return for the kiln opening, to remove and finish the work. However, if you can't make it, I will finish it for you, and deliver it, all within the same price.
Workshops cost £200 (plus, of course, the cost of the sculpture).