Chloe

Chloe is our Education Manager. She maintains the lively and action-packed program of online masterclasses and seminars - ensuring that all of our students get the most out of the learning content. Always on the lookout for new teachers and potential courses, Chloe ensures that the Glass School offers exciting fresh content every month. Chloe has a Master’s degree in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, and subsequently has an established sculptural ceramic practice that sees her regularly exhibit on an international level.

Megan

Megan is the Education Content Coordinator. Responsible for all things physical, she ensures that in-person teaching runs smoothly and that our students get to learn everything that they desire! Having completed a bachelor's degree in Creative Art Practice at Sheffield Hallam in 2011 Meg established herself as a practicing glass artist. Soon after graduating Megan joined the Warm Glass team and set about laying the foundations for the educational program that has flourished into what the Glass School is today. As our primary glass technician, Megan not only assists our glass artists in the development of the live online masterclasses but teaches her own glass knowledge both online and in person through Personalised Days.

Helen

Helen is our Online Course Facilitator. Helen will be on hand during any of our live Online Masterclasses to assist the teacher and provide our students with any extra information that they might need. Helen is currently studying towards toward BA (Hons) Artist Designer Maker - Glass and Ceramics at the University of Sunderland.

Ellie

Ellie is the Glass School videographer. She works with Meg to film and produce our in-house filmed Learn At Your Own Pace content and works with our partner artists to produce their Artist Courses. Ellie joins us after completing both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Film and Television at the University of Bristol, and she has tonnes of exciting projects on the go as she continues working freelance too!

Guy

Guy is the Education Systems Coordinator. Working in tandem with Chloe, Guy ensures that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes – building courses, managing the website and getting his teeth stuck into the Glass School administration. Guy also studied for a Master’s degree in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2019 and is currently studying towards a PhD in Ceramic practice at the University of Creative Arts.

Bob Leatherbarrow

Bob has been creating with kilnformed glass for over 35 years and is known for innovative techniques, textures and colour palettes using glass powders. His glass bowls and sculptures explore the subtle hues and delicate beauty of naturally occurring textures and encourage the viewer to ponder their origin.

Bob is dedicated to education and is a popular guest instructor as well as having written e-books on textured powders, firing schedules, and design.

He lives in the artistic community of Salt Spring Island, Canada.

Catherine Dunstan

Catherine Dunstan is a glass artist and educator with specific interests in pattern making - combining kiln-formed techniques with hot glass processes.

Graduating with a BA in Creative Writing and Journalism, from Kingston University and a graduate of the University for the Creative Arts MA program, Catherine was shortlisted for New Ashgate Gallery’s Rising Stars Prize 2021 and selected for inclusion in the British Glass Biennale 2022 exhibition as part of the International Festival of Glass. Catherine has exhibited throughout the UK and has taught extensively across the globe.

Joshua Kerley

Joshua Kerley is an emerging artist, designer, and educator specialising in kiln-glass. He holds a BA in Contemporary Crafts from Falmouth University and a MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art, London. Since graduating, Kerley has won several prizes, including the Glass Art Society Saxe Emerging Artist Prize, and the Tiffany & Co. Studio makers Prize. Examples of his work are held in the permanent collection of Bullseye Glass Co. and the Special Collections Museum at Manchester School of Art. Kerley currently works from a studio in rural Wiltshire and teaches glass at the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Evelyn Gottschall Baker

Evelyn has studied watercolour, oil painting, stained glass and fused glass, which allowed her to pursue a career as a glass artist, alongside her professional role as a Test Engineer, from which she has now retired to concentrate fully on her art.

"Living in Colorado, I find it natural to try to capture the beauty of our local landscape into works of art using glass. I have fully embraced a realistic style, and have begun to use both traditional and non-traditional casting and mould techniques to create sculptures that depict the beauty around me. I strive to take viewers to that place where I looked down and was inspired by what I saw."

Morgan Madison

Morgan Madison is a Pacific Northwest based artist. A fateful job in the fiery depths of a glass factory led to his pursuit of glass as a medium.

Today, working from his studio in Seattle, he uses a variety of materials and processes to create work that is informed by his love of drawing and inspired by place – the colours, textures, design and landscape which help define the places we live.

Claire Hall

Claire's passion for glass began during her years travelling across the United States when she met a small community of glass artists in the mountains of West Virginia and started to learn the basics of glass fusing and torchwork.

Originally trained as a sculptor working in wood and steel, the material of hot glass easily translated into her work. It was at this time Claire also started designing and creating glass jewellery, making glass beads over a hot torch and fused glass jewellery in a kiln.

Since then she has moved back to the UK and now works from her studio in Brockley, near Bristol. She has won several awards for her glass jewellery and exhibits nationally. Last year she was selected to showcase her sculptural vessels and jewellery at The National Glass Centre in Sunderland. Claire has been teaching classes at Warm Glass since 2012.

Amanda Simmons

Amanda makes kilnformed glass objects, playing with gravity in the kiln. Manipulating mass, heat, colour and time, she creates complex, elusive work that has intense colour and pattern which reacts to the light it is placed in. She uses opaque glass powders to construct her work because of its varying translucency as the form elongates in the kiln, then finishes the kiln fired pieces using many coldworking processes to shape and mark the glass including sandblasting, hand lapping and diamond point and wheel engraving.

Amanda graduated from Central St Martin’s School of Art & Design in London with Distinction studying Postgraduate Certificate in Glass & Architecture, before relocating to Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland in 2005. She has exhibited in many high profile national and international exhibitions.

Alice Benvie Gebhart

Rhode Island kilnformed glass artist and teacher Alice Benvie Gebhart is best known for her glass depictions of glass landscapes and trees.

"Being born into an artistic family, my father and grandfather were practicing artists, I continue the family legacy with glass. Glass is the media that reveals this natural vibrancy of mind and spirit to its utmost. I enjoy the technique kilnformed glass to create something that is both abstract and literal."

Silvia Levenson

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia Levenson emigrated to Italy in 1981, during the "disappearances" of the Dirty War. In 2004, Levenson received the Rakow Commission Award from the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, and in 2008 she was shortlisted for the Bombay Sapphire Prize. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is part of the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Museo del Vidrio in Argentina, the Museo del Vetro in Italy, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

Joanna Manousis

Joanna Manousis is a British–American artist working in glass and mixed media. Her work has been recognized with nominations for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a Bombay Sapphire Award Nomination for 'Excellence in Glass' as well as the Margaret M. Mead Award and the Hans Godo Frabel Award. Manousis has received support from internationally recognized residency programs including the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. Her work has been exhibited at Design Miami and Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; FOG Art + Design, San Francisco; the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; and the British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, England.

Alison Lowry

Alison Lowry is a glass artist living and working from her studio, ‘Schoolhouse Glass’ in Saintfield, Northern Ireland.

In 2009 she graduated from the University of Ulster with a First Class Honours degree in Art and Design. Since then, she has won numerous awards including the Warm Glass Prize in 2010 and 2011 and more recently the Bronze Award at Bullseye Glass’ ‘Emerge’ exhibition. Alison exhibits internationally and her work is held in several public collections, with the National Gallery of Ireland recently acquiring a large Pâte de Verre vessel for the ‘Contemporary Craft Collection’ and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland recently having made a fourth purchase for their collection.

She employs a range of techniques to create her sculptures, working with cast glass, silk screen-printing and Pâte de Verre.

Helen Slater Stokes

Glass Artist and Lecturer; Helen graduated from The Royal College of Art, with a master’s degree in 3D Design: Glass & Ceramics, in 1996 and since then has been lecturing and making glass sculptures from her workshop in the Cotswolds. She subsequently completed a part-time PhD by practice, in 2021, at The Royal College of Art.

Helen's work explores the creation of the 3D or spatial image, within glass, and the notion of glass as a facilitator, in working with and challenging our perception of space. These unique glass pieces vary in scale from dramatic life-size outdoor figures to delicate tabletop casts for interiors.

Kate Clements

Kate Clements constructs delicate and ornate large scale paintings and installations comprised of kiln fused glass panels. The wafer-thin panels reference naturalistic designs and floral motifs that she uses to explore ideas of beauty, taste, and impermanence. Since receiving her MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2015, she has been awarded residencies at the Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), S12 Gallerie (Norway), Pilchuck EAiR, and recently a 3 year residency with Studios Inc (Kansas City). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been featured in Italian Vogue Gioiello, American Craft Magazine, and New Glass Review.

Marina Hanser

Marina Hanser is an Austrian glass artist and educator. She studied at the Glasfachschule Kramsach, Vetroricerca, Italy and the Australian National University. Marina has received a series of international opportunities including Residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass, Bullseye Glass and the Canberra Glassworks. She has assisted, taught and exhibited internationally.

Through her studies in a variety of countries Marina has gained a diverse and extensive educational background with a strong focus in kiln forming, casting and cold working techniques. She embraces not only a multitude of techniques through these countries cultural traditions, but combines, adjusts and incorporates them into her own creative process.

Ellen Van Dijk

Ellen is a stained glass artist with a focus on glass painting. She learned the craft working for one of the biggest studios in the Netherlands for five years. In 2020, Ellen started making her own stained glass windows that pay homage to the techniques of the old masters while infusing them with contemporary themes. Two years later, in 2022, she began teaching glass painting workshops. She has welcomed students in her studio in Holland from all over the world since, and has travelled to Belgium, Brazil and the United States herself to teach glass painting.

Choi Keeryong

Choi completed his practice lead PhD research in Dec 2015 at the University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh College of Art. He has been teaching at Edinburgh College of Art since 2015. He moved to Scotland in 2006. His extensive experience of living in both Britain and South Korea has given him broader cultural outlook. It has enabled him to position himself in what he calls ‘in-between’ and to examine both cultures with ‘fresh eyes’.
Choi’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including SOFA Chicago, USA, International Glass Prize 2015, Belgium, and Collect, London, UK, Toyama art glass museum, Japan, and ‘The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass’, Germany. Choi (his artwork) has been selected as Loewe Craft Prize 2023 finalist. His work is held in the permanent collection including Corning Museum of Glass and Imagine Museum, USA, National Museum of Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh, The Oriental Museum, Durham, and The National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK.

Barbara Cashman

Barbara J Cashman has been a glass fuser since 1979 and was an early pioneer in commercial fused glass tile, opening GlasTile Inc in 1990, which produced quality handmade production and custom glass tile. A creative problem-solver, Barbara was encouraged to find a safe, non-carcinogenic refractory product that the hobbyist and professional alike would be comfortable to use in their glass art processes. Enter SilkeMat® From there, she has added a special rigidizer for the refractory blanket and an easy-to-use devitrification solution for use on glasses prone to devitrification.

Rebecca Arday

Rebecca Arday is an Assistant Professor of Glass in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies and the Director of the National Casting Center Glass Studios at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, USA. Her work interweaves art, science, and history. Utilizing glass and other amorphous, ephemeral materials, she explores (im)permanence and (in)stability in relation to the personal and societal.

Lois Manno

Lois Manno has lived in New Mexico for 40 years. After working for decades as a painter and graphic designer, kiln-formed glass took over her life. She developed unique methods of working with glass frit and powders to create her nature-based imagery. Lois developed a unique product for glass artists called Modeling Glass. The kit includes a non-toxic powdered binder and liquid medium that, when combined with powdered glass and water, becomes a clay-like mixture that can be sculpted. In addition to teaching, she has written an ebook titled Exploring Modeling Glass, with tips and projects for making amazing art with powdered glass.

Kim Brill

Kim Brill is a graphic designer, art director and glass artist. Her glass work has appeared in the Bullseye Emerge international exhibit and Corning Museum of Art's New Glass Review. In 2020, with her glass partner Kat Adair, she began offering online video tutorials for glass artists and they have published two color reference e-books.