Monday Evenings – Create Your Own Art

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No fixed start and end dates so join in anytime                 6.30pm to 9.00pm  –  £400.00 for 10 weeks plus materials

Trial evening £125.00 – including glass and firing

Are you ready to start making what you want to make in your own time, no pressures?  Regular Monday evening workshops running 6.30pm – 9.00pm could be perfect for you. You may be a complete beginner wanting a to give a go or have experience and are looking for a space to use.  Either way you will be welcome, and I will be here to help whenever you need me.  To give an idea – you could make an item in an evening or carry the work onto the following visit/s and re-fire the same piece or fuse pre-fired pieces together. It’s an opportunity for you to experiment.

The studio is well stocked and the kilns ready for firing. Along with all usual studio tools we have a small sandblast cabinet, pillar drills and a wet saw.  If you find you need any glass we haven’t got in stock, you can order it in or bring it with you.  Hopefully, it will be here for your next visit.

10-week blocks are available for £400.00 and if you can’t make it here one week, we will carry it forward so you don’t miss out.  This cost covers the use of the studio, use of stocked equipment and a basic firing – longer firings such as for casting, using the whole of the larger kiln space or a second firing within a week will be an added charge.  You will also need to buy your glass on top of this fee.  I suggest putting £50/£100 into a kitty and keep a tally of how much you use, then topping up again as you run out. Just so you know I use solely Bullseye glass and you can’t mix it with another type.  Well, not if you want to keep your art in one piece…  You can buy it through me or from several stockists around the UK.

These are fun, relaxed evenings to take away the stresses of your daily work and be creative around like-minded people.  Teas, coffee, hot chocolate and biscuits are always available.

There are so many ways to work with glass, step this way to find out more…

Pip & Karen x

Published by Glass Botanicals by Pip Stacey and Karen Shackleton

Working with my daughter, Karen, we handcraft beautiful botanical glass art. We are mainly self-taught using a few good books and attending workshops run by a handful of amazing artists willing to share their knowledge: Mikyoung Jung, Silvia Levenson, Rudi Gritsch and Karl Harron, to name a few. Go on, have a peek at their work, they all have different ways of working with glass. A good way to describe how we feel when working with glass is enjoyment in focus. You so often loose yourself when forming ideas for new pieces. Making sample after sample until we can get the feelings attached to our ideas into the glass in front of us. This repetitiveness calms the mind, slowly reducing the vast noise of an idea into a simple beautiful note. Our long-time love of gardening has greatly influenced our work - Karen has a very productive vegetable plot at home; and I have worked as a professional gardener for 25 years and I still enjoy every minute working with my customers. Gardens never stop evolving and we hope our glass never does either. Our roots are in Lancashire, then we ventured to the middle east for several years and I have now happily settled back into the UK. Karen with her partner and son in Lincolnshire, I with my husband in Oxfordshire. I have a studio in Marcham, a lovely village that it is an expanding as they all are, but that is managing to keep that valuable community spirit.

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