Events from Cheshire School of Glass category

With glass evoking a similar characteristics to water, it’s no surprise that the ocean is a very popular subject to depict using fused glass.

Come and try your hand at lampwork bead making on this exciting new course at CSG taught by the extremely knowledgeable and inspiring Gill Hesketh.

If you’ve never worked with glass before and want to start from the very basics, then this is the course for you. We’ll show you the primary techniques involved in cutting, shaping and assembling glass, use of inclusions, how the kiln is programmed and also take a look at slumping.

This course will show you how to use enamels, glass powders and other decorative glass elements to create a landscape or seascape design that incorporates depth of field, perspective and a certain luminosity that is not achievable when working with paint on canvas.

We Brits love our animals – whether it be farmyard animals, fish, wildlife or domestic furry friends.