Thank you for a fabulous day. One of you said that you thought the sort of people who would be attracted to a course like this would be nice people. I have no idea how that works but it does!
Top left: Paul
Middle (L to R) Cathy, Mary, Ali
Bottom (L to R) Janet, Gill, Isla
1st pieces are in and firing this is before shot
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Our party didn’t happen this weekend so I have been busy making work for forthcoming exhibitions and we have made a couple of short films about using a microwave kiln to fuse float glass. Full marks to Vince who not only has an incredibly steady hand for transporting wobbly glass pieces to the kiln but also turns out to be a dab hand at filming with an iphone. Hopefully we can get those uploaded here and to our new page on Facebook in the next couple of days.
I am really nervous as well as excited right now as I am about to start an MA in fine art and in an hour or so am driving up to Barnsley ready for my induction workshop tomorrow. The instructions say to take a piece of work to show the group, so far Vince has put 5 in the car for me! Luckily Amelia, who has been on 2 of our courses, is starting the MA too (huge coincidence) so it won’t quite be like the first day at a new school.
The next course is a week on Saturday so more photos then but I will post inbetween.
Please leave a comment about the videos when they appear to let us know what you like, what you don’t and what you would like more of.
These are a really nice assortment of pieces showing the versatility of float glass. I love that moment the kiln is first opened and these were a real joy to see. Thank you everybody please do comment on your pieces if you have a moment.
They look great and there are still more firing and a couple to go in
Before shot and after
Here is a photo of Fiona’s lovely Alpacas more info at http://www.simplysuris.co
Thank you for all your lovely comments (and to Sophie for the chocolates, which strangely dissapeared in a flash),It is great that you liked the course so much. Please do post if you can think of anything extra we can provide or ways we can improve.
Welcome to anyone new looking at this page it’s lovely to see you here. We hope to have pictures up from next Saturday’s course soon.
Also I am about to start a creativity page here on the blog which will look at how we can encourage creativity as well as negotiate creative blocks. This is definitely another page I am hoping will become a two way thing as, sadly, I am guessing we all go through this from time to time. Hopefully the page can be a useful resource for us all as well as being supportive.
These were made by Fiona, Alison, 2 by Amelia, Jude, Lou, Claire and Sophie.
I am so grateful to you all for making these wonderful pieces I think they are a great showcase for the intermediate course. Also thank you to Jude for phoning to say what a great time you had and how pleased you were to see your piece on the web. My plan for the next week or so is to get a facebook page up and running and please keep watching the blog as we have another course on Saturday.