Submissions invited from any artist or maker in the UK working with enamel
The British Society of Enamellers, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen and the University of the West of England are proud to be collaborating on Playing With Fire, a major survey exhibition of contemporary UK enamelling to take place at The Devon Guild in September 2008 and touring across the UK in 2008/9.
Two £2000 bursaries will be awarded plus the opportunity to use research facilities at UWE’s enamel department.
Note that the deadline for submissions: 1st October 2007
For full details e-mail devonguild@crafts.org.uk
or write to : Playing With Fire, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AF
& you can check the BSOE web site for more details www.enamellers.org/devon.html
Summer Courses in the USA - Enamelist Society
Add some color to your life - and work - this summer!
Enamelist Society workshops available! this August!!!! ...
If you've ever admired pictures of René Lalique's masterpiece "Dragonfly Woman" ornament, with glowing transparent wings of blue, you've seen plique à jour and it's unique power to add color and luster to jewelry design. This summer, Diane Almeyda, the premier American plique-à-jourenamelist, offers two workshops in plique à jour as part of the the Enamelist Society Biennial Conference, "Fusion," being held in Columbus Ohio August 24-26, 2007. Starting with a frame of pierced silver or a filigree skeleton ofsoldered silver wires; enamel is suspended and fired to fill the openings. With no metal backing, the enamels transmit light and resemble miniature stained glass. The result is a visual and technical "tour-de-force. "Almeyda's pre-conference workshop, August 22-24, will cover the pierced technique, while her post-conference workshop, August 27-29,will concentrate on constructing a filigreed piece. Almeyda learned filigree plique-à-jour from Valeri Timofeev, the great Russian masterof the technique.
Both workshops will take place at the Woodrow Carpenter Foundation in Covington Kentucky which is affiliated with Thompson Enamel. Thompson is the sole remaining American manufacturer of vitreous enamel, and a promoter of the art form for many years.
Other Enamelist Society workshops still available at this site are Harold B. Helwig, "Wet out and Underglaze," a unique exploration of enamel drawing techniqueswith one of the medium's greatest experimenters and teachers, and Jeanette Landenwitch, "Exploring Precious Metal Clay for Enamelists. "Landenwitch is director of the PMC guild and teaches PMC workshops throughout the U. S.
Interested in working BIGGER? Two workshops at Kent State'slarge-scale enameling facility also still have room for students. Katy Bergman Cassell will present "Industrial Materials, Artistic Expression" pre-conference, while Cathy Kay Taylor's post-conference workshop, "Color, Color, Color: Enamels and Color on a Large Scale"will work with liquid and dry enamels to explore the color possibilities of enamel on steel.
Registration for the conference and workshops can be done by mail oronline - but hurry! A $40 late fee will be charged after July 30th.
For more information, go to http://www.enamelistsociety.org/
Enamelist Society workshops available! this August!!!! ...
If you've ever admired pictures of René Lalique's masterpiece "Dragonfly Woman" ornament, with glowing transparent wings of blue, you've seen plique à jour and it's unique power to add color and luster to jewelry design. This summer, Diane Almeyda, the premier American plique-à-jourenamelist, offers two workshops in plique à jour as part of the the Enamelist Society Biennial Conference, "Fusion," being held in Columbus Ohio August 24-26, 2007. Starting with a frame of pierced silver or a filigree skeleton ofsoldered silver wires; enamel is suspended and fired to fill the openings. With no metal backing, the enamels transmit light and resemble miniature stained glass. The result is a visual and technical "tour-de-force. "Almeyda's pre-conference workshop, August 22-24, will cover the pierced technique, while her post-conference workshop, August 27-29,will concentrate on constructing a filigreed piece. Almeyda learned filigree plique-à-jour from Valeri Timofeev, the great Russian masterof the technique.
Both workshops will take place at the Woodrow Carpenter Foundation in Covington Kentucky which is affiliated with Thompson Enamel. Thompson is the sole remaining American manufacturer of vitreous enamel, and a promoter of the art form for many years.
Other Enamelist Society workshops still available at this site are Harold B. Helwig, "Wet out and Underglaze," a unique exploration of enamel drawing techniqueswith one of the medium's greatest experimenters and teachers, and Jeanette Landenwitch, "Exploring Precious Metal Clay for Enamelists. "Landenwitch is director of the PMC guild and teaches PMC workshops throughout the U. S.
Interested in working BIGGER? Two workshops at Kent State'slarge-scale enameling facility also still have room for students. Katy Bergman Cassell will present "Industrial Materials, Artistic Expression" pre-conference, while Cathy Kay Taylor's post-conference workshop, "Color, Color, Color: Enamels and Color on a Large Scale"will work with liquid and dry enamels to explore the color possibilities of enamel on steel.
Registration for the conference and workshops can be done by mail oronline - but hurry! A $40 late fee will be charged after July 30th.
For more information, go to http://www.enamelistsociety.org/
e-news July 07
Just a few items this month... Check out:
NEW DESIGNERS....
which is on NOW at the Business Design Centre in London
BSOE member Emma Fernandez is exhibiting on Stand J8
...catch it if you can ! click HERE for details
ART IN ACTION.....
Enameller Jane Moore is exhibiting this July at the 30th anniversary of Art in Action.
The event is staged in the grounds of the graceful Georgian house at Waterperry, Oxfordshire, Art in Action is the UK's only art fair where so many artists can be seen at work. This four day event (19-22 July) is packed with inspiration and beauty. Visitors can learn or buy from the artists who set up their studios in one of the many Art in Action marquees.
Click on the website address for more details http://www.artinaction.org.uk/
NEW DESIGNERS....
which is on NOW at the Business Design Centre in London
BSOE member Emma Fernandez is exhibiting on Stand J8
...catch it if you can ! click HERE for details
ART IN ACTION.....
Enameller Jane Moore is exhibiting this July at the 30th anniversary of Art in Action.
The event is staged in the grounds of the graceful Georgian house at Waterperry, Oxfordshire, Art in Action is the UK's only art fair where so many artists can be seen at work. This four day event (19-22 July) is packed with inspiration and beauty. Visitors can learn or buy from the artists who set up their studios in one of the many Art in Action marquees.
Click on the website address for more details http://www.artinaction.org.uk/
OUT OF THE FIRE
Our next BSOE exhibition ‘Out of the Fire’, will feature work by award winning jewellers Phil Barnes, Jane Moore, Rachel Gogerly, Melissa Rigby, and Hali Baykov. Altogether, twenty four enamellers will be exhibiting exciting new work: jewellery, panels and bowls. A special feature of this exhibition will be a section of experimental work, where established enamellers show explorations in new directions, while their mainstream pieces will be on show in other parts of the gallery.
‘Out of the Fire’ will be on show from 18th August - 15th September 2007.
The Garden Gallery
The Oxfordshire Museum,
Fletchers House,
Park Street
Woodstock, OX20 1SN.
Tel: 01993 811456
The gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 2 – 5pm, (closed Mondays)
For further information and a full list of exhibitors, contact Louise Richards,mailto:louise@tracksidegallery.co.uk or 020 8749 8345.
MASTER CLASS @ UWE BRISTOL
Continuing Profession Development in Applied Arts @ UWE Bristol
Design On The Edge - Master Class with Robert Ebendorf
Dates 6th-10th August 2007 - 9.30-4.30pm each day.
Price £300 (Lunch provided each day)
This week long master class will be an investigation of creative design thinking, using mixed media, paper collage and found materials to create a series of work relevant to the practitioners own work, this could lead to an artist’s book or a series of collages or artefact's. There will be design projects which will enrich the participants working vocabulary and group discussions related to the workshop. The master class will include a mentoring session on personal work and future development. Limited to 10 participants.
Continuing Profession Development in Applied Arts @ UWE Bristol
Design On The Edge - Master Class with Robert Ebendorf
Dates 6th-10th August 2007 - 9.30-4.30pm each day.
Price £300 (Lunch provided each day)
This week long master class will be an investigation of creative design thinking, using mixed media, paper collage and found materials to create a series of work relevant to the practitioners own work, this could lead to an artist’s book or a series of collages or artefact's. There will be design projects which will enrich the participants working vocabulary and group discussions related to the workshop. The master class will include a mentoring session on personal work and future development. Limited to 10 participants.
A COUPLE OF INTERESTING LINKS ON THE WEB
Just thought these links might be of interest.
This is a great list site linking to galleries / events / and info worldwide.
A blog site full of info about the art of the portrait miniature, quite a lot to sift through but quite interesting.....
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Keep me posted if you have any news or info to add !
MANY THANKS !
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