A brand new course for the BCC running this February exploring the art of stained glass and transparent colour, making a hanging leaded panel
Join us to explore the art of stained glass and transparent colour. Make a hanging leaded panel using your own design or working from a template. This course will enable you to explore colour, tone and line as you create a panel to transmit coloured light into your home.
Students will learn the traditional skills and processes involved in designing and making a small stained glass panel. Resources and shared examples of contemporary and traditional stained glass will give you an awareness of what is possible with glass and of the wider art form. You will build up your skills and confidence during the course to work safely with glass, lead and solder. Techniques will include:
- Pattern making, glass cutting, leading, soldering and cementing
Group tuition and one to one help will enable you to gain hands-on experience of a variety of glass techniques. The aim of the course is to explore this medieval art form whilst playing with the qualities of colour, transparency and texture to create a personal project.
This course is suitable for complete beginners or students with some experience of the medium who would like further guidance and to improve their skills. Please note this is course is not suitable for anyone who is pregnant.
Materials and tools
All materials and tools will be provided by the College and costs included in the course price
Students will need to bring sturdy footwear (steel capped boots advised and can be borrowed). College will provide aprons and goggles.
- No prior experience necessary
You will need to bring:
- Steel toe-capped boots (to be worn at all times while on course)
February 2025 half term – 17th – 19th February 2025
3 day course – 10am-4pm – with half hour lunch break
3 day course – £450
Kirsty Brooks will be the tutor for the course. Kirsty is an artist and tutor who has worked within the glass industry and as a public artist for the last thirty years. She has taught stained glass for the last decade, encouraging students to play with glass light and colour in experimental ways.
Kirsty trained in Wimbledon and Edinburgh and graduated with a degree in architectural glass and painting. She moved to London to work with other artists and stained glass studios whilst developing her own work. Her practice involves site-specific investigations and archive research but is rooted in her beginnings in stained glass – light, transparency and colour.
Apply via our website here or buy your ticket on our Eventbrite
- For currently enrolled BCC students (on a study programme or apprenticeship) a 25% discount will be applied on the fees for a short course taken in the same academic year that they are enrolled
- For any currently enrolled short course student who wants to enrol on a full or part time study programme (19+) in the subsequent academic year we offer a 50% fee rebate on the cost of their short course.
- For any BCC alumni of study programme or apprenticeship they can get a 20% discount on the short course fee.
Discounts can only be redeemed when applying directly via the college, any short course purchased on Eventbrite is not eligible for discounts.
