Jeanette has been enamelling for twelve years and finds it a fulfilling and exciting medium to work with. She loves the vibrant colours that can be achieved by enamelling and also the unpredictable nature of working with copper and vitreous enamel glass powder.
Jeanette uses the dry sifting method of enamelling which is to sift glass powder over hand cut stencils onto the copper in several layers to create the picture. This is then fired at just over 800° C for about three or four minutes.
Jeanette is also a passionate photographer and always have my camera with me to capture inspiration that I can then use for an enamel picture. She has recently started making transfers from some of her photographs (usually trees) which she uses as a complete picture or to incorporate the transfer into a landscape.
Recently Jeanette has been enamelling onto copper bowls which she finds great fun and very unpredictable . The bowls are high fired as the aim is to get the glass to run down the bowl creating wonderful patterns. Jeanette’s bowls are fired up to five times with more layers of either opaque or transparent glass powder being applied for each firing.
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