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Build on your engraving experience and take your glasswork further through a focused exploration of cold working techniques using a rotary tool. This course opens up new possibilities for detail, texture, and precision, guiding you beyond simple mark making into more intentional, expressive surface design. Through a series of structured demonstrations and supported studio time, you’ll experiment with more advanced burr control, layered texturing, relief carving, and approaches for working confidently across different forms and glass types.

As your skills develop, you’ll plan and complete a personal project that brings together technique, design thinking, and your own creative direction. Along the way, you’ll refine your handling, expand your repertoire of surface effects, and discover how subtle shifts in pressure, movement, and tool choice can transform your work.

Whether you’re returning to engraving after a break or looking to extend what you already know, this course offers a thoughtful progression a chance to deepen your practice.

Cost: £135 (full fee), £78:75
Location: Granville Park Centre, 100 Granville Park, Lewisham, SE13 7DU
Time: 7-9:30pm

Deepen your glassmaking practice by exploring how kiln forming can create functional and sculptural forms in three dimensions. This course explores how heat, gravity, and simple moulds can encourage glass to bend, fold, and settle into sculptural shapes that feel organic, unexpected, and uniquely personal.

Building on your previous experience with kiln formed glass, you’ll experiment with slumping, draping, and gravity led approaches that shift the focus from surface to structure.
Through guided studio activities, you’ll investigate how different thicknesses, combinations of glass, and basic supports influence the way a piece transforms in the kiln. You’ll be encouraged to work intuitively, testing ideas, responding to outcomes, and allowing the material to guide the development of your forms. As your confidence grows, you’ll create a sculptural object that explores volume, contour, and the playful possibilities of working in three dimensions.

This course offers a natural progression for anyone ready to move beyond flat work and embrace the creative potential of kiln formed 3D glass, with an emphasis on curiosity, experimentation, and sculptural thinking.

Cost: £135 (full) fee, £78.75 (reduced fee)

Location: Granville Park Adult Education Centre, 100 Granville Park, Lewisham, SE13 7DU

Deepen your glassmaking practice by exploring how kiln forming can create functional and sculptural forms in three dimensions. This course explores how heat, gravity, and simple moulds can encourage glass to bend, fold, and settle into sculptural shapes that feel organic, unexpected, and uniquely personal.

Building on your previous experience with kiln formed glass, you’ll experiment with slumping, draping, and gravity led approaches that shift the focus from surface to structure.
Through guided studio activities, you’ll investigate how different thicknesses, combinations of glass, and basic supports influence the way a piece transforms in the kiln. You’ll be encouraged to work intuitively, testing ideas, responding to outcomes, and allowing the material to guide the development of your forms. As your confidence grows, you’ll create a sculptural object that explores volume, contour, and the playful possibilities of working in three dimensions.

This course offers a natural progression for anyone ready to move beyond flat work and embrace the creative potential of kiln formed 3D glass, with an emphasis on curiosity, experimentation, and sculptural thinking.

Cost: £135 (full) fee, £78.75 (reduced fee)

Location: Granville Park Adult Education Centre, 100 Granville Park, Lewisham, SE13 7DU

The use of enamels enables the creation of gorgeous textures and blended shades, and I will lead you step by step, sharing my specialist techniques, to create your own unique wall hanging.

I offer workshops on an individual one-to-one basis or for couples/pairs attending together. Workshops can either be a full day (9am to 4pm), or three hours (9am to Midday). Dates by prior arrangement.

My studio is in Bovey Tracey, Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor National Park.

Visit my website for all the details of each workshop option and pricing, and to see more photos of workshops in progress and students with their finished work.

Please email with any questions.

Discover the art of stained glass in one of Ireland’s most breathtaking settings! Join us for a week-long retreat in Mulranny, where the stunning interplay of sea, land, and sky will inspire your creativity. Create a hanging glass panel using colorful stained glass, while learning painting, silk-screen, airbrush, and hand-drawn techniques. The instructor brings a variety of silk-screen for the class to use. Each piece will be kiln-fired and soldered together, resulting in a unique masterpiece up to 12×12 inches (30×30 cm). Perfect for beginners and those who have worked with stained glass and want to add imagery to their art.

Learn fun and easy ways to add detailed images and patterns to your glass work. Joseph Cavalieri is excited to return for his fourth class, focusing on fusing and slumping trays with bold, colorful images. Starting with cutting glass, you will learning silk screening, penning, painting, and airbrushing enamels onto glass. Joseph will bring a variety of exciting silk screens for you to use. No prior painting or drawing experience is needed; you will learn how to trace images to bring your piece to life. Plan to make four or more final works during this four day workshop, plus many fired samples of all the techniques, and learn from Joseph’s popular art residency lecture, He will share tips he learned during his fifteen visiting artist residencies. These techniques apply to stained glass projects as well as fused glass projects. Joseph will discuss and bring samples of how to easily use these techniques with stained glass, but the focus of the class is fusing, slumping, and having fun.

Masterclass: Lost Wax Without Wax – Advanced Glass Casting – Antonis Koutouzis

Explore the possibilities of the lost wax technique without the need of wax.
In the lost wax process, we often deal with approximate 2-3% wax shrinkage of the model to be cast, plus additional time for retouching seamlines and any imperfections resulting from pouring/brushing into the mother moulds. The inevitable steaming of the wax can, furthermore, stress and weaken refractory moulds, especially in larger projects.

On this five-day advanced glass casting Masterclass, Antonis will guide you through a complex multistep process of creating positive and negative forms in silicone to eliminate these problems, resulting in a cleaner, more efficient, and more accurate realisation of almost any shape for casting.

Fusing Discovery Day with Amanda Mires

7th May 2026 (Thursday) Duration: 1 day

Location CGUK studio – Rochester, Kent

A compact class to delight and inspire all – from the novice to the artist investigating the set-up of their own kiln-working studio. On this enjoyable one-day workshop you will not only gain a better understanding of glass in general, but also expand your knowledge-base of all the firing processes. It’s the perfect class for those who would like to have a little more insight into what happens to glass behind the closed kiln door and how the firing program affects the end result. You will explore:

Selecting materials & tools
Combining exciting mixtures of materials
Firing techniques for perfect results
Adapting processes to suit your needs
Expressing yourself through your work

Our aim is to present reliable techniques in a relaxed atmosphere, so that you gain confidence with firings and discover your true creative potential. At the same time more complex issues such as compatibility, viscosity and annealing will also be covered, enabling you to build up a solid foundation for all your future glasswork.

Our resident teacher, Amanda Mires will provide a class which will include demos, lectures, written documentation, plenty of hands-on-work and, last but not least – a lot of fun for everybody involved – book now for a class that really delivers!

Projects
A set of small dishes / candle holders
A selection of samples exploring different techniques and firing temperatures

Skill Level
No previous experience required

Please note, places for this class are limited to ensure plenty of support can be offered to each attendee.

NB. A waiting list will be in operation once the class is FULL – please email info@creativeglassshop.co.uk if you would like to be added.

Kiln-Formed Glass: The Sustainable Art of Repurposing with Julia Gonyou

23-24 April 2026 (Thursday-Friday)

9.30am-4.30pm 2 days

Location: CGUK Glass Studio – Rochester, Kent

Please join us for an environmentally conscious new workshop focused on exploring the possibilities of sustainable kiln-formed glass, using recycled glass bottles, and float glass.

Participants will learn how to break down these materials and artistically repurpose the glass – without the use of moulds – into unique compositions using pattern, shape and script. You will explore techniques using expressive mark-making, textural objects and cut-outs to create distinctive relief work.

Explore this more streamlined and Eco-friendly approach to glass-making while building practical skills and creative confidence to support your future work.

Projects
Students will have the opportunity to create 3-4 projects, including sun-catchers, and free-standing panels to take home/collect after final firing.

Skill Level
Beginner/Intermediate

Further Information
More about Julia can be found here: www.juliagonyou.com

All class materials and necessary tools/equipment are provided.

Refreshments are included, but please bring your own packed lunch.

Participants must be 18+ years of age.

Workshops are held in our well-equipped studio above our retail centre, accessed via 2 flights of stairs, there is no lift.

NB. A waiting list will be in operation once the class is FULL – please email info@creativeglassshop.co.uk if you would like to be added.