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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

Ok the ‘other stories’ bit isn’t there and I only getting to grips with this after a bit of a tussle with myself and the nagging thing that has been sitting on my shoulder telling me that I need to make sure that I complying with the new regulations has won! Overview In order for […]