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Finally Some New Workshops
It’s taken me a while to plan these in – but I thought I better get some dates in the diary before I get fully booked up!
A few dates listed below, which may get added to, or moved, depending on booking or requirements.
The Introduction to Glass Fusing is a full day session (we usually start around 10/10.30am and finish around 4.30pm); on this, you’ll begin by learning to score and break glass safely, you will have an opportunity to practice with some plain window glass and put together a clear glass design. We will then move on to using speciality art glass, designed for glass fusing in a vast array of colours – I will show you a few techniques and different ways to layer and assemble your glass designs. All items will be fired after the session and we arrange a mutually convenient date for collection. All tools, equipment and basic glass requirements are covered in your costs (if you wish to make something exceptionally large or using expensive glass, this can be arranged)
The Glass Taster Session is shorter, approximately 2-3 hours – during this relaxed class, you don’t learn about cutting glass – you work with a clear glass blank and learn how to create a colourful sun-catcher or wall hanging by assembling your design from variety of mosaic sized pre-cut pieces or glass frit (granules). You should be able to make a couple of smaller pieces during this session, or one larger panel. Again, the pieces are fired, ready for collection at a later date.
Group classes require a minimum of three people to book on them to go ahead, but won’t run with more than six. If you have been given a voucher to use for a group workshop from either Craft Courses or one from Dawn Turner Designs, please contact me HERE to reserve a place on your chosen date.
You don’t need to have a Paypal account to pay via the button below, you can also use a bank card, just check out as a guest. The blank text box is if you can do one of the other dates listed, let me know, as it will make coordinating dates a little easier for me.
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I Love Seahorses!
… so I was very pleased when I was commissioned to make a seahorse design for someone.
I was contacted a few months back by someone who’d seen my stained glass seahorse panel which I made years ago as part of an evening class. He is an underwater photographer and diving journalist and asked if I could make one for him.
No, I said, sorry. What? I hear you cry, are you mad? Well, no, I am not (well I might be slightly) but I don’t have the tools and equipment to make stained glass – although I expect my cutting skills would be up to it (you’d think so after 11 years of fusing) – so I showed him some of my more current work, told him how much I loved seahorses and I’d happily make one with no pressure to buy, it was just something I’d wanted to do for a while.
So, here’s Mr Seahorse. I was very pleased with him.
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Some Eye Candy
I’ve not posted much lately – because I’ve been rather busy!
I went straight from the residency project to some work with Arts at The Heart, Kirk Hallam, and have been working with community groups and a nursing home. Got lots of project photos to show you for those.
At the same time, I’ve been involved in a project up at Creswell Village, working with a lovely group of ladies that I’ve got to know well over the last few months. I’ve been teaching them some glass skills whilst building up ideas for a piece of community art. That project is all done now, well my part has anyway, and it culminated in a glass tapestry made by the group members which will be on permanent display in the Big Local office.
But I am not going to show you that!
I finally got a chance to get back to making a bit of my own work in the kiln, and I was so pleased that the kiln fairies were kind to me, even though I’ve been working them very hard.
This beauty came out the other day, it’ll be destined for one of the galleries I stock, but I thought you might like to see it. I was so pleased with everything about it – the subtle sheen, the gentle variations in the glass, as well as the shadows that the clear strip cast.
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Exhibition Images
I know I have already shown a few images of my work at the Erewash Museum, but I’ve had these through from the official photographer and I am thrilled to bits with them. Deborah Selwood Photography did them and wanted to share just a few.
So not a lot to say, just admire Deborah’s excellent photography skills, and hopefully enjoy a bit of my art!
An extract from Frank’s war journal following his brother’s death during the Somme battle 
From one of Edwin’s letters home to his parents. This made me smile when I read it. 
From Frank’s diaries – the words were so poignant, and didn’t leave my brain. 
Contrast between the tone of Edwin’s letters home and the gritty reality of Frank’s war journal. 
These are two of my favourite pieces. In Frank’s diary, he talks about the irony of wearing khaki for camouflage, and then having to shine their buttons. The buttons are gold on the glass. 
An extract from one of the many letters of condolence written to Edwin’s parents following his death. 
Contrasting descriptions of the front line trenches from the Hasse brothers. 
In case you don’t recognise it, the glass disc on the right is map of the Somme battle lines, the dotty line is where it was when Edwin lost his life. 
Stunned by how beautifully Deborah captured my glass Death Penny.
