Appreciate and enjoy the details of Advanced Pattern Making an Investigation into Linear Symmetry with artist Ian Chadwick. In this advanced course increase your awareness to the use of Symmetry, a fundamental design tool used by both man and nature, as a devise to bringing balance and harmony to a chaotic universe consequently attaining an aesthetic of order and familiarity. This class gives you the opportunity to connect this design technique to your glass work.
In this 5-day course, under Ian’s direction while using Bullseye glass, you will create your own unique colored sheets of glass, increase your understanding of color, design, and composition while expanding your knowledge and experience of kiln-forming and cold-working techniques to create intricate mandala-like patterns which utilize symmetry and geometry to create individual hypnotizing works of art. Students will be guided step-by-step through the creation of Bullseye glass striped sheets which once fired will be deconstructed and reassembled. Discover how the arrangement of tone and color can vividly enhance the optical properties of your design and how to lay out the pattern using principles of four-fold and eight-fold symmetry. Utilizing these concepts and techniques you will create a 9” square glass tile of your own unique color and design.
Prerequisite: Glass cutting skills.
Supplies: All Included
Class Schedule: 9:00-5:00
Class Price: $500.00 deposit upon registration, $750.00 due on or before September 16, Total $1250.00. After making the deposit you may do payments by calling the studio.
About the Artist:
Ian Chadwick is an internationally recognized Kiln -formed glass artist. Winner of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Award at the British Glass Biennale 2019. Ian has an interest in geometry and in particular in the history and philosophy behind the geometric symbols know as mandalas. This interest is realized in Ian's glass work where the ritualized process of making is employed to bring the essence of mandalas into the symmetrical glass patterns which have become his unique signature aesthetic. As Ian has progressed his work he has continued to investigate different pattern forming techniques and new ways to engage with the viewer. The Patterns have evolved and become multi layered and less ordered.