I will be teaching a five day sculptural flameworking techniques class at North Lands Creative Glass February 20-25, Monday through Friday 2012.

Cost: £550

This five day technical course will use the bench burner and hand torch to build skills for making sculpture in clear borosilicate glass. The course will cover general health and safety of the studio, torch, canisters of gas, and the flameworker, as well as building your own studio.

Beginning with cutting techniques for solid and tube, we will quickly move on to making a small sculpture, with a solid grounding in solid-to-solid joints and bracing, which is required for moving on to larger scale work. Blown techniques will be covered, beginning with pulling points, use of the blow-hose, tube-to-tube joints, and finer points of blowing specific areas of the glass.

The course will also cover use of the hand torch to enable larger-scale work. New assignments each day will build on and refine the previous skills learned. This course is suitable for all levels of experience.

If you are interested you're welcome to ask me questions, but please register with North Lands Creative Glass