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A Colourful new Direction: Glass Fusing in Manchester

I’m making an exciting shift in my studio practice and taking a break from teaching the one‑day stained glass workshops.

I’m focusing on the magic of kiln‑fired Glass Fusing Experiences, relaxed, creative morning workshops where you can play with colour, light and texture, and make something truly unique.

✨ Next Glass Fusing Workshop: Saturday 23rd May (Bank Holiday weekend) create a beautiful fused glass Heart. ✨ All the details are on the Boutique Glass Fusing Experiences Manchester page.

Glass fusing is a wonderfully accessible way to explore glass art. No experience needed just curiosity. Every fused piece is unique, so your creation will be truly one‑of‑a‑kind.

Glass heart workshop
fused glass coaster
Fused glass heart

Each workshop takes place in my Hope Mill studio in Ancoats (part of AWOL studios), with a small group of just four people, so there’s plenty of guidance and support.

You’ll design and make your own piece using the templates I provide, little birds, hearts, coasters, hanging suncatchers or a small trinket dish, depending on the session.

You’ll learn how to cut and shape glass and use colourful decorations such as frit, stringers, dots and tiny Murano pieces (like slices of candy rock).

Your finished pieces will be fired in the kiln, available for collection within two weeks, or can be returned to you.

  • fused glass heart
  • fused glass coaster
  • Fused glass Bird
  • Fused glass heart
  • Fused glass heart
  • Glass heart workshop

Alongside teaching, I’ll also be spending more time on my own glass projects, developing my skills in traditional fired glass painting something I’m really excited about.

If you’d like to see what glass fusing looks like, have a look at @glassfusing.manchester to see the beautiful pieces people have created in my workshops.

I’d love to welcome you to a fusing session soon it’s a joyful, colourful way to spend a morning and create something you’ll be proud of. Booking information for Boutique Fused Glass experiences

Glass coaster or beautiful eye candy

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A Burst of Colour: Spring Daytime Stained Glass Courses Now Open for Booking

A burst of colour is set to brighten Tuesday and Thursday mornings as I open bookings for the next round of my Daytime Stained Glass 8 week courses, starting mid- April, after the Easter break.  These eight week courses are designed for complete beginners as well as returning makers, offering a chance to slow down, learn a traditional craft, and create something beautiful with your own hands.

Working in small, friendly groups of just four, you’ll receive plenty of individual support as I guide you step‑by‑step through the stained glass process,  including designing your own projects, creating a pattern to cutting glass, leading, and soldering. You will develop your own unique project at a relaxed, steady pace.

Many people tell me these sessions become a welcome pause in their week: a couple of hours to focus, unwind, and enjoy the gentle rhythm of making. The studio atmosphere is calm and encouraging, with cups of tea, shared conversations, and that lovely moment when a project suddenly ‘clicks’ into place.

By the end of the eight weeks, you’ll leave with a finished stained glass piece, new skills, and a real sense of creative accomplishment. Some students go on to make further pieces; others simply treasure the experience of learning something new in good company.

What I love most is the mix of people who walk through the door. Some arrive a little unsure of their creativity, while others return with ideas ready to explore, every time, the work produced is uplifting and beautiful.

  • 8 week course
  • Returning student 8 week course
  • 8 week course
  • Returning Stained glass by student
  • Stained glass by returning student
  • Stained glass by student

One of my favourite moments is the ‘pattern design stage’. Someone will bring in a sketch or a picture that inspires them, a favourite flower, a landscape, a geometric idea.  We all sit together figuring out how to translate it into glass. It’s a quiet magic, watching an idea become a physical object.

For the practical details please do use the link to Manchester stained glass and you can always contact me to chat about any questions you have.

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Stained glass workshops starting late May 2021

It’s a finger’s crossed’, feeling positive, that I will be able to start teaching stained glass workshops again from the 17th May ’20.

New Dates will go up on the website, once I have offered spaces first to those who had their workshops postponed. Keep an eye on the website or be the first to know and ask to be added to the mailing list. Contact Page.

In the meantime during the lock-downs one of the things I have been up to is making a few stained glass panels as commissions and for friends. The last one is a very belated birthday gift for a good friend, in hues of oranges and pinks, finally made with lock-down spare time on my hands. The aim was to use off cuts I already in the studio, a recycling theme. I love hand blown pink glass so much it was almost hard to part with.

The pink glass is made by the only hand-blown glass manufacturer I am aware of in England, English Antique Glass

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Autumn and Winter Stained glass workshops

Stained glass workshops – Space this weekend and in November and December

Watch out for new courses and workshop dates for 2020. A little New year creativity or great Christmas gifts for friends and loved ones.  Contact me to be added to the mailing list and be kept up to date.

Or get creative now with glass, spaces on the Stained glass for beginners weekend workshops, 19th – 20th October, 16th & 17th November.

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Stained glass beginners Weekend workshop

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Weekend beginners workshop

Also, Christmas themed Introduction to Copper Foiling workshop on Sunday 24th November and Saturday 14th December.

Contact me to book or I’m happy to answer any questions you may have.

 

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Round up of Springs Stained glass

Stained glass & Copper-foiling courses & workshops.

A lovely array of colourful glass pieces made by people attending stained glass workshops and courses over the last few months.

I will be putting up some new dates for the popular ‘Stained glass weekend for beginners’ and ‘Introduction to Copper Foiling’  for late summer and the Daytime and Evening Courses will run again in September.

If you are interested yourself in attending a course/workshop, or have any questions, please do contact me and ask away.

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