Beadmaking

Julie Anne Denton | Beginners to Intermediate

Session: 6/2005 14 - 27 August

This course will teach the fundamentals of beadmaking and flameworking off the mandrel. It will cover decorative bead techniques as dots, stretched dots, zig zagging, feathering, encasing, honeycomb, landscape, silver/gold foils, enamels, skimming and much more. Also, standard and abstract shaped beads as round, column, tapered, square, core vessels, hollow and heart shaped beads. The instructor will show how to make filigrana and murrine cane and buttons, glass animals and the human form as well. Perhaps the class will even get some time to blow glass in the flame. Every student will have the opportunity to design the course to cater to her/his own particular needs and wants, no matter how ludicrous the idea. But whatever happens during this jam packed two weeks, each student will leave with at least one beautifully finished necklace or sculpture in glass , depending on her/his personal taste.

Julie Anne Denton

Julie Anne Denton was born in the Isle of Man. She began her art education at Isle of Man College for further study, before venturing across the water to Wolverhampton University to study glass and philosophy at a degree level. Four years later, she achieved a 2:1 degree with honours. Whilst completing her course, she taravelled to Seattle to study lampworking under the tutelage of Glass Maestro Emilio Santini for a period of time at Pilchuck Glass School. After finishing her degree and showing her work in several exhibitions she travelled to USA once again, but this time to Virginia to learn, work and teach with Emilio Santini. Since leaving the States in the summer of 2001 she has continued to exhibit and teach in Britain, Eire and the USA. Before taking up a year long residency at the Courtyard Gallery, Isle of Man, she was chosen to attend masterclass taught by sandcasting maestro Bertil Valien. During the residency, she travelled to America to learn the figure in soft glass by Luccio Bubacco and since finishing her residency with a successful solo show under her belt, she now runs her flameworking studio/workshop in the Isle Of Man.