Creative workshops in the beautiful Surrey Hills. Prices start at £50 per person for a taster session and most workshops are one to one although small groups can book together.  Please get in touch for more details or to book a date. 

Taster Session - Metal

Duration: Approx 2 hours
After a brief demonstration of welding you get to make simple designs in metal, for example hanging Christmas tree decorations.
This involves:
• Drawing your design and making a cardboard template.
• Cutting out your design in metal using tin snips and a guillotine.
• Shaping/texturing the metal using hammers and chisels on an anvil or wooden block.
• Drilling holes, filing and cleaning the metal.
• Using the oxy acetylene welding equipment to melt edges, braze or heat for colour effect.

Taster Session - Lampwork Glass

Learn how to make simple lampwork beads in the flame.
Workshops tend to be one to one unless people book as a group (I can only take up to 3 people for the glass workshops as you have to take it in turns to use the equipment).

Students generally make about 5 beads, I demo one, then you make one. Beads are made by melting glass rods around a metal stick in a big flame. After the workshop the beads have to be annealed for several hours so you have to either collect another day or pay £2.50 for postage (you also get my demo beads).

You will make:

Basic bead to practice the technique:

X1 Opaque glass

X1 Transparent glass

Explore surface decoration:

X1 Frit (ground up glass)

X1 Spots/dots

Play with the flame!

X1 Gravity twist

Experiment with the shape:

X1 shaped bead; bird, fish, heart….

Make a Wall Hanging

Combine the metal and lampwork glass taster sessions into one workshop and create your own wall hanging. 

Make a Small Metal Flower

Duration: 2-3 hours
After a brief demonstration of welding you get to make a small flower design in metal.
• Drawing your design and making a cardboard template.
• Cutting out your design in metal using tin snips and a guillotine.
• Shaping/texturing the metal using hammers and chisels on an anvil or wooden block
• Using the oxy acetylene welding equipment to make your sculpture, melt edges, braze or heat for colour effect.

Make a Garden Sculpture

Working on a larger scale design and weld something big enough to go in a flower bed.

Full Day Workshop

Have your own project in mind or want to make a more complicated piece, get in touch to discuss possibilities!