BSOE | May Workshop - Shrewsbury

TWO DAYS OF WORKSHOPS IN SHREWSBURY
> SATURDAY - EVANGELINE LONG - HIGH FIRING
> SUNDAY - RUTH BALL - IMAGE BUILDING USING MIXED METHODS

DATE Saturday and Sunday 9th & 10th May 2009
Saturday: Experiments with high firing and corrugated copper shim with Van Long
Sunday: Layered images using screens & mixed methods with Ruth Ball

TIME Saturday: 11am – 5pm, Sunday 10.30am – 5pm

VENUE English Bridge Workshop, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6AD

COST £40 for both days (including hot & cold drinks). Bring your own enamelling
Supplies and accessories. Copper shim and copper panels will be available to buy.

Following on from the success of last year’s BSOE weekend workshop in Shrewsbury, we
have organised another exciting weekend of enamelling workshops in this lovely old venue.

Van Long is an experienced enamel artist with an international reputation who creates panels, mainly on copper sheet. She has a painterly approach to enamelling and has gained valuable knowledge
of the ways in which enamel can be applied expressively and further developed by over-firing in order to extend their effects. She will demonstrate the amazing effects that can be achieved by over-firing certain jewellery enamels on copper. A trained sculptor, Van will also show us inspiring techniques using corrugated copper shim.

Ruth Ball is also an internationally regarded enameller with a successful career as enamel artist, writer and teacher. Last year she showed us some wonderful panels she had made using photographic images of the urban landscape. Using these and other work as inspiration, she will show creative approaches to making small enamel panels using screens and mixed methods. See her portfolio pages on http://www.ruthballdesign.co.uk/.

Bring your own black & white photographs to make into screens.

These workshops should interest jewellers as well as panellists, as all methods can be used on a small scale if necessary. Places are limited to 10 and are for both days, allocated on a first come basis.

Please arrange your own accommodation for Saturday night locally, or contact Jill Leventon jill.leventon@btinternet.com 01743 289946 for b&b with local members.
We will again all dine out together in Shrewsbury on the Saturday night. Come and gain new skills and friends in this beautiful historic town. Directions and an equipment list will be sent on receipt of your payment.

Further information & booking please contact Melissa 020 7359 3591 rigbymelissa@hotmail.com
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