I’ve spent a couple of days here in Hunmanby trying out some new ideas and Tom has been working over in Denmark finishing a few more pieces of enamel jewellery from our pebble range. We will both be teaching etching and enamelling silver here in my studio in Hunmanby next week. There’s still a place …
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Teaching and Learning – a love of enamel
I had a wonderful day on Friday teaching Clare a little bit about cloisonné enamelling. She used premade fine silver blanks and working from her little sketches I showed her how to break an image down into sections to form the fine silver wires. I then demonstrated how to lay them into the piece and …
Enamel on silver
I had a great day yesterday teaching an introduction to enamel on silver. Ian had done quite a bit of reading and had an idea of what he’d like to do. We covered quite a lot in the day including preparing, testing and applying the colours; making shapes with fine silver wire then applying and …
New samples and planning
I’m putting together workshops for early 2019. These will be as follows Wednesday 16th January and 6th February Art clay Silver for enamelling. This workshop is to make pieces in art clay silver, suitable for enamel and does not include any enamelling. We suggest taking an enamelling workshop as a follow up class. These can …
Enamelled bowls
We both love working on copper and experimenting with the different reactions between the metal, heat and enamel Here are some of our recent bowls
Workshop planning for 2019
I’m putting together workshops for early 2019. These will be as follows Wednesday 16th January and 6th February Art clay Silver for enamelling. This workshop is to make pieces in art clay silver, suitable for enamel and does not include any enamelling. We suggest taking an enamelling workshop as a follow up class. These can …
Etching silver with Tom Lundsten
Saturday 16th February and Sunday 17th February 2019 The course teaches or demonstrates how one can transfer computer drawings or patterns to silver sheet by use of photopolymer film, and subsequent electro-etching. This will be a one day workshop but can be followed by a second day learning how to enamel on the silver pieces …
New work and happy collaboration
Tom and I are are just working on the final few pieces for our next two shows. The first will be Kunsthåndværk I Brøndsalen 18, 19, 20 and 21st October 2018 http://www.khib.dk and this will be followed by Art& at York Racecourse 26, 27 & 28th October 2018 http://www.artand.co.uk I’m very excited about this collaboration …
More new work
I’ve had a fantastic time over in Denmark working with my partner Tom Lundsten. We did some more pieces for our Pebble Collection. These are etched, formed and constructed and enamelled. Some of them are also engraved by Tom before enamelling, others are textured. The transparent enamels show this lovely pattern of the engraved or …
Pebble in my pocket
Since late last year I’ve been collaborating with Tom Lundsten, a brilliant and inspiring Enameller from Denmark. We are currently working on a collection of Jewellery based upon my sketches of pebbles. We discovered that we shared a love of the sea and both really love to walk on the beaches. This partnership has …
