Pauline Holt

Courses Attended:
1998 – Beadmaking for Beginners with Diana East
1999 – Beadmaking with Kate Drew-Wilkinson 
2000 – Glass Event Week at Plowden & Thompson (fusing, slumping, furnace
           work, lead crystal cutting and engraving, glass blowing etc)
2000 – Intermediate glass beadmaking with Kate Fowle
2000 – Web design courses – FrontPage, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver & Flash 
2000 – Blown Borosilicate Glass Beads – Steve Ramsey
2000 – 5 days Glass Extravaganza – Plowden & Thompson
2001 – Working with Coloured Borosilicate glass – Nancy Tobey in the USA 
2002 – ISGB 10^th Gathering in Washington DC 

2007

Coastline Necklace and a group of 'Bright' Beads featured in The Beader's Color Mixing Directory by Sandra Wallace - ISBN 0-89689-480-0
3 page Feature in "Bead" Magazine (Dec 07/Jan 08 issue)
BBC TV'sThe One show - interrview with John Sargeant 

2006

      Lamp-work Necklace in Bead & Button Magazine February 2007 issue.
Included in the book "50 Distinguished Contemporary Artists in Glass" - ISBN 0-947798-60-9.
Double Page feature in the Beadwork Guild Magazine January 2006 on my “Summer Garden” necklace.
Catwalk Necklace in the Biennale Exhibition at the International Festival of Glass
Teaching at the International Festival Of Glass Stourbridge
4 Photos and credits in “The Bead Selectors Bible" by Elise Mann
Feature in “Inspired Living” magazine 

2005

      Exhibition with Diana East at the Crew Yard Gallery, Patchings Art Centre, Calverton
Adopt and Artist Exhibition Aylesbury
Demonstration at Broadfield House Glass Museum for the Bead Collectors Day
Exhibition at Art@Calvert nr Aylesbury
Exhibition “Perles de’art”  in France
Photos in The Encyclopedia of Beading Techniques by Sara Withers and Stephanie Burham
Set up new studio for space for two students

 2004

      Adopt and Artist Exhibition Aylesbury Civic Centre
June - Daily Mail article on sheds
Taught and Lectured at the International Festival of Glass
Feature in Lark Books “1000 Greatest Beads” (Page 34)
Dec 2004 - January 2005 - Patchings Art Centre – The Art of Christmas Shopping
Photos in “Round the Beading Twist” a book by Jacqui Carey
Photos in “Complete Beading” a book by Jema Hewitt

2003

      Featured in a TV Documentary on the Discovery Home & Leisure Channel
Centre-fold spread in the Mail on-Sunday – March
Exhibition at Aylesbury Civic Centre - May

 2002

     Tutored with Diana East – “Working with Coloured Borosilicate glass for beadmaking – the first class of its kind in the UK.
Featured in Beadmaking Article in a West Midlands Lifestyle Magazine – March

 2000/1

      Began teaching beadmaking for beginners at Plowden & Thompson’s workshop
Visit to various Glass Bead Shows & Exhibitions in New York.
Tutored and demonstrated at the Scientific Glass Blowers AGM

1998/9

Attended first glass beadmaking course with Diana East Set up Jazzy Lily Hot Glass - built       Lamp-working studio
Founder member of Glass Beadmakers UK (GBUK) Became Treasurer & Membership Secretary
Created “Hot Stuff” – the quarterly GBUK newsletter
 

  On going - my work can be found at The Red House Cone & Tudor Crystal both in Stourbridge, 
and at all the major UK bead fairs
                                           


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