Join Lizzy Hippisley-Cox for a one day Stained Glass 'taster' ... Design and make a beautiful Leaded Mirror.  

An opportunity to dip your toe into and try this intensive one day Stained Glass taster day with Lizzy making a leaded stained glass mirror. All glass, tools, equipment, expertise and enthusiasm is provided by Lizzy, who is highly skilled in preserving these jewels of our heritage and has spent many years advising on and restoring original stained glass windows in our cathedrals and churches countrywide

Lizzy will have some prepared design templates ready for you and there will be a choice of coloured glass along with some pre cut panels mirror as needed. Firstly she will explain the various aspects of creating a stained glass panel, and will then let you have a go at learning the safe glass cutting technique. Once practised, you can then choose your template from a selection supplied, depending on your cutting abilities and at this stage you can decide whether you wish to incorporate a mirrored panel within this or alternatively keep the whole panel as glass. If mirror is required Lizzy can cut this for you. 

Once all the pieces are cut , the panel is carefully leading up the mirror according to the design. You will then finish by soldering everything together in your panel and finally cleaning and polishing using demonstrated techniques.  You will leave with your own bespoke stained glass (mirrored) panel. 

9.30am – 4.30pm
£95 inc. a tasty home made lunch

Material Charges £30

Dates for this course - see the table below to book:

  Sun 13th April 2025     ~     Friday 1st August     ~    Sun 23 Nov 2025    *new dates*

Please bring:  Lizzie will bring all the equipment needed for your workshop.  Please bring your materials fee of £30 in cash. You could bring a notebook if you wanted to record any of the techniques, and a box or bag to protect your piece on your homeward journey.  Do bring an old shirt to work in, and if appropriate, don’t forget a good pair of glasses to enable close detailed work.  You are advised to moisturise your hands on the morning of and on days prior to the course to minimise attracting splinters.

A health and safety briefing will be given and the use of safety equipment (provided) will be required. Lead, lead solder and the fumes are toxic substances both to handle and to breathe in. Pregnant women are advised not to handle lead or breathe in fumes. PLEASE DO NOT WEAR OPEN-TOED SANDALS during this course. You are advised to moisturise your hands to minimise attracting splinters.

 About the artist:  Elizabeth (Lizzy) Hippisley-Cox lives and works in the Eden Valley near Brough. After Art College in Dorset she read for a Bachelors Degree in Medieval Studies at Manchester and fell in love with medieval stained glass. She moved to York in 2009, undertaking an apprenticeship and training at the studios at York Minster Works Department; and further placements to German and Belgian studios in 2011. In 2016 she became a William Morris Craft Fellow with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), which enabled her to travel the UK and France, visiting a great many conservation projects and stained glass studios. All these travels and a desire to settle somewhere beautiful and rural led to her establishing Eden Stained Glass and making Cumbria home.