Short Course- An Introduction To Stained Glass – February 2025

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

Student Success Stories

Emma Leslie

2 Year Fine Woodwork Diploma Whilst at the BCC, Emma particularly enjoyed the amount of bench time the course offered and the access to the ...
READ MORE

Rowena Edwards

We caught up with Rowena Edwards who graduated from the Building Crafts College’s 2 Year Fine Woodwork Diploma course in July 2017. What did you enjoy most ...
READ MORE

Luke Ebbutt James

Luke graduated from the Building Crafts College’s 2 Year Fine Woodwork Diploma in July 2015. What did you enjoyed about your course at the Building Crafts College? ...
READ MORE

Dan Baxter

Nineteen-year-old Dan Baxter is an apprentice with TMJ Interiors in Suffolk. TMJ Interiors was established in 1981 and has become a leader in specialist joinery and the ...
READ MORE
Want to join?

Apply using our online form