Top 10 Best Glass Painting classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK

Come along to this monthly meet up and get to know fellow weavers just like you in the neighbourhood. This club is for keen tapestry weavers who already have a basic understanding but want a little hands on help, advice and some good chat on a regular basis. The gang get together once a month on a Wednesday evening. Bring along your work in progress, schnacks and a drink and lets solve all the problems of the world while we weave our worries away. You can use everything in the studio, every yarn on the wall and the rainbow in roving, spare needles, scissors combs, good chat and herbal tea too. I know you don't need an excuse to leave the house but this is a pretty good one!

If you've had a taste of working with stained glass and are keen to take it to the next level, this is the ideal class for you. Over two days you will learn to mix glass paints and enamels and apply them to glass using a range of techniques. We'll cover everything from traditional outlining and shading, to more experimental mark-making. Using the kiln, these painted pieces will be fired to become permanent. You will go home with completed painted stained glass pieces, which can be leaded into a window or panel during the workshop or at home, depending on how ambitious you have been! You will also have several experimental glass paintings and samples to take home. Each class is deliberately quite small and intimate, so that everyone can benefit from bespoke teaching. This will be the case whether you want to make a traditional painting or something more experimental. And of course, the classes are informal and fun!

Nothing says Christmas is here quite like hanging your own handcrafted decoration on the Christmas tree. Get into the festive spirit in this fun social evening workshop, taking place in our special yuletide pop-up next door to our boutique in Brixton, South London. Learn how to use glass paints to make your own Christmas designs on glass baubles whilst enjoying mulled wine and Christmas tunes. There will be tonnes of resources to help you design your baubles and Jude our teacher will guide you step by step in using the specialised glass paints. You will make 3-4 unique decorations to take away with you. You are welcome to take them away with you that night, but we recommend you leave them to dry overnight and pick them up at your convenience from the pop-up, open 10.30am-6.30pm every day until the 23rd of December.

In this half a day workshop, it is not a necessity to make your glass pieces inspired by the Jubilee! However the studio will be decorated to celebrate the Jubilee and spark your imagination. Who says learning to glass blow has to be hard? This workshop makes it easy for you by supplying all of the essential and quality equipment you will need to make your own glass. As well as mastering glass blowing skills and techniques, you will also have plenty of opportunity to channel your creativity and unleash your inner glassblowing artists. Choose from a broad selection of colours as well as silver and copper leaf to design your unique glass art. You can decide which two ornaments you create and take home from the following: Christmas Bauble Paperweight Bowl (we recommend a suction bowl because they're so fun to make!) Melt into this glassmaking method. Safely and comfortably learn how to heat molten glass in a 1100 degree furnace. Then learn how to independently retrieve your glass using historical hand forged tools. Now it’s time to let out a big breath to mould and sculpt your piece through blowing your own glass. Once you have had fun heating, melting and blowing your glass, the next step is the all important cooling process. Safely learn how to cool and finish your glass art with the direction and guidance of your professional glass blowing teacher. Blowfish Glass understands that all students have different learning styles and preferences. This workshop incorporates demonstrations as well as hands-on engagement in each step of the process, so you can learn through watching as well as attempting each step with your own two hands. You are guaranteed to take home your two original glass pieces, a full understanding of the glass making process and techniques as well as a new found addiction for glassmaking!