The Art of Enamel

I have been a full-time designer and maker in dry powder enamel for nearly 40 years. All my work is individually hand crafted in enamel on copper plate. My designs are created by hand cutting paper masks. Some designs having over thirty colour masks. 

My jewellery, pictures and boxes all have enamel applied to both sides of the copper plate, and each has at least three kiln firings. After single colour enamel base coats have been fired on front and back of the copper plate, I then very carefully place in turn onto the copper plate a mask, allowing dry powder enamel to be sieved through it onto the base coated surface of the copper. Dry powder upon dry powder.  Each mask being painstakingly placed and removed with the aid of tweezers and a palette knife. 

When the dry powder design is complete it is then transferred to a firing stilt and individually kiln fired at 900C to produce a unique enduring piece of art.