Gordon, Easter 2007... (Photo: Alan Dunmur)

Morning Glass Designs will close for Easter on Thursday 27th March, and re-open on April 6th. During this time both the office and workshops will be closed, although we may check e-mail now and again.

Restoration work by Michael Zappert (detail from a Douglas Strachan panel, St Moulag's Church, Tarland)

Images of work by Mike have been added to the Friends of Morning Glass Gallery 

Please note our new workshop mobile phone number: 07525055833

Our Full contact details are:

Office phone: 019755 63257
Workshop phone: 07525055833 (mobile)

E-mail: info@morningglass.co.uk
Web: www.morningglass.co.uk

Office: Morning Glass Designs, Marchmyres Cottage, Breda, Alford, Aberdeenshire, UK, AB33 8NQ
Workshop/Gallery/Deliveries: Morning Glass Designs, Westhall Workshops (East), Kincardine O'Neil, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, UK, AB34 5AD

Karan Raitt cutting lead for her first panel

There is a real shortage of taught courses in stained glass right now. Karan (pictured above) approached me a couple of months back about learning leaded glass techniques. I put her in touch with a number of places offering courses, but she wasn't able to get a place in the northern half of the UK! As the course I am teaching at Woodend Barn was full, I offered her an informal short course, at my workshops instead. We had a great time, with loads of swearing and biscuits making it just like a normal day at the workshop for me...!

"Untitled" - Fused Glass Bowl, Gordon Watt (2007)

Just a reminder to artists and makers in NE Scotland that the registration dedaline for this year's North East Open Studios event is fast approaching.  NEOS is an award winning collective of artists, makers and galleries based in northeast Scotland, who open their doors to the public yearly.

This morning saw the fitting of three Victorian-style panels in an Arts & Crafts era house in Bieldside. The house, although modernised in part, still retains original leaded quarries in an area that formed a small-scale studio pottery. I will post more images in the portfolio soon.

The process of screenprinting onto glass has been simplified enormously by the ability to digitally print design onto acetate. Yesterday I picked up the full size separation for the panel, and we cut it up into the individual glass sections. In the photo Linsay is attaching each section to the coated screen.

Inks, Peacock Visual Arts screenprinting studio

Started work on screenprinting the Auchterless Kirk stained glass panel today. Each piece of glass in the design will be screenprinted using enamel. Linsay Croall at Peacock is helping me through the process, and we spent today setting up the intial two screens.

A wide range of sculpture courses, including courses in stained glass, fused glass and coldworking, are now available at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Click here for more details.