Category: community art

Thursday Stained glass course

Starting 19th September – one place available

Early September on holiday in Brittany, I had chance to look inside a few local churches and was rather blown away at the beauty and complexity of the painted stained glass windows!

On a more achievable fun level, the opportunity to join one of my stained glass courses and make your own stained glass panel, minus the paint, has just come up. Now, we wouldn’t make such a complex design, but I find that glass is such uplifting eye candy that you wouldn’t be disappointed with the outcome and for years to come can enjoy the sun lighting up the glass.

The space on the Thursday Morning course, is short notice for starting on the 19th September, but you never know, someone may be free and this is will be just the ticket for starting for Autumn.

Do contact me if you would like to join Contact

Now for some Brittany Stained glass.

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Withington Baths Stained glass

A lovely short video made for Withington Baths, as part of there Heritage restorations funding project, showing the Schools Stained Glass project. Thank you to Bellevue Productions who created and produced the video, and for letting me show it. I had a fabulous time collaborating with the schools to create the stained glass.

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Stained Glass Artwork Showcase: Engaging Creations and New Ventures

Withington Baths stained glass

My most recent stained glass project I’m thrilled about is a series of windows created for Withington Baths, part of their Heritage Fund renovation. I created a community engagement project to design the windows. I worked with 5 local Primary schools and a local young adult learners group.

The designs centred around the themes of ‘Welcoming’ and ‘Community.’ Collaborating with local primary children and young adults on these window designs was a delightful experience. They brought inspiring ideas, a fresh palette of bold colours, and demonstrated exceptional teamwork in finalizing the designs. Here is a reel from my Face Book showing how magical light is through stained glass, and slide show of the work.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/951645279604238

Painting and other work

I’ve been a bit of a secret agent when it comes to showcasing my stained glass creations, need to learn to put down the glass cutter and learn how to update website’s gallery. I’ve been painting and firing designs onto glass, which is a thrilling new venture and quite the learning experience. As I figure out how to update my gallery with new pieces, here’s a slideshow featuring some of the stained glass artwork I’ve created.

  • A window for Sam
  • Withington Baths Cafe Window

Interested in having a bespoke painted stained glass window, do ask Contact or ring for a chat, always happy to discuss.

Want to make your own lovely glass panel, come to a workshop, have a look at dates Stained glass courses and workshops

AWOL OPEN STUDIO – Friday 4th October 6pm – 9pm come have a have a nosey at my studio and all the other artists studio at AWOL studio in Hope Mill https://www.awol-studios.co.uk/about/

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Slow down, breathe and break glass

Also known as mindfulness whilst being creative

I think it’s well acknowledged that being creative is good for us, takes the mind off the ‘to do’ list and a respite from the little lemon that life throws at us. It is a chance to engage outside our normal day to day tasks, in a vibrant, tactile way using our hands, transforming glass into art pieces.

I have been running workshops and teaching stained glass, copper foiling and now fused glass, for many years. What I have found is the journey of learning to make stained glass is not always about the obvious, but an array of different reasons for people.

One women who comes to the Wednesday morning course, has said ‘it’s her therapy’, and to be fair, we have a good laugh, and non-judgemental positive encouragement, recognizing ‘our wins’ is important. Meeting new people, fostering community in a creative slightly structured setting, learning a new skill, personal growth and confidence, whilst playing with beautiful glass, is hard to beat for the feel good factor.

With this in mind I have two new workshops which hopefully cater to peoples available time.

Both are fun, creative and can give a bit of a buzz.

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  • Wednesday stained glass course
  • Wednesday Stained glass course
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Explore the workshops and courses, and feel free to contact me with any questions. Stained glass and copper foiling require various hand tools and involve standing at a bench to cut glass and lead. Creating fused glass can be accomplished while seated, provided that minimal cutting is involved.

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Exhibition – Museum of Journeys in a Chest of Drawers.

A Museum of Journeys in a Chest of Drawers – Looking Beyond the Stereotypes.

Some of you may have heard me talk about the community art work I do and in particular the above project I have been working on with artist Rachel Ramchurn. Excitingly the exhibition opens next week Saturday!

Preview 12pm -3.30pm Saturday 29th February. Hosted by Arc centre and inside the Hatworks Museum Wellington Mill, Wellington Rd South, Stockport SK3 0EU

A participative and interactive art project, including stories and artworks from participants at Arc Stockport and Global Sistaz United Nottingham.

“Look inside the chest of drawers and discover stories from two seemingly different groups of people. Will you recognise yourself in the stories told?”

This exhibition hopes to share the stories of what unites us as humans during a time of political, social and cultural divide.

Share your story at the end with our poem-making machine. Do any of the words resonate with you?

It will be lovely to see some of you there. The exhibition preview is running alongside Arc’s Saturday Family art club 11.30am -4pm.

Below is a sneak preview and some of the art works in progress.

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Continues to show Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 10am – 4pm until 17th April 2020.

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