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Helen has considerable experience teaching stained glass and mosaics to people of all ages from primary school, through GCSE and A level to adult education. She has also made a number of windows for schools either as autonomous commissions or working with students helping them to create their own work
>> Glass painting by GCSE students at Sir John Lawes School, Hertfordshire
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| Primary Schools |
Children of all ages are entranced by the magic of coloured glass and suprised by how safe it is to handle when cut into small pieces. Helen works with adult helpers to cut glass into tesserae which the children can then arrange to form sizeable mosaics. Examples of these can be seen in a number of Hertfordshire Schools.
- Garden Fields Primary school, St Albans
- Manland Primary School, Harpenden
- Kimpton Primary School, Kimpton
- Sir John Lawes School, Harpenden
>> Kimpton Primary School, Hertfordshire - glass mosaic under construction
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| Secondary Schools |
As a progression from work done with primary schools, older children can be taught to cut glass themselves, again forming glass mosaics. Helen has also worked with individual GCSE and A level students helping them with some of the more complex proceedures of cutting, and leading glass to make their own small panels. In 2009 she completed an Arts week project with Sir John Lawes School in Harpenden where GCSE Art students were taught to paint glass prior to it being fired and incorporated in a large window for the school's Science Department
>> Completed window at Sir John Lawes School, Hertfordshire commemorating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin
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| Adult Education |
Helen has taught evening classes at Oaklands college in Hertfordshire and is an occassional tutor at West Dean College near Chichester. She now runs individual and small group courses from her studio in Harpenden.
You may contact Helen directly to check availability of courses or to arrange individual or group tuition.
>> Stained Glass weekend at West Dean College, Chichester
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