Tag Archives: enamel

Burning Bright

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Vitreous enamel fired onto copper. 6×4 ins. One of several pictures that emerged from the kiln this week as I explored some new colours and ignored the text books. It’s amazing what you can get from a bit of battered … Continue reading →

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Bardo

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

A new enamel fresh from the kiln today. Making Bardo. After a session of careful work in which I tested the effects of disparate enamels on each other, and made notes, I decided to do one more before switching off … Continue reading →

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Moon Fleet

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

Moon Fleet appeared during investigations into the behaviour of leaded and lead-free enamels when juxtaposed. There is an interesting phenomena: the lead-free enamel tends to retreat from the boundary with the leaded; that is what produced the halo around each … Continue reading →

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Art to Helmsley

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

The ‘Look Gallery’ at Helmsley needed some enamels. I took pictures of my latest work (here is one), packed a dozen and took them to Helmsley, a town on the other side of the North Yorkshire Moors. The gallery took … Continue reading →

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Alchemy

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

And Then There is Alchemy The transmutation of matter. It’s much like life, really. An errand boy for the Co-op in Hartlepool then, by some happy chance, I was tapping out Morse code in the wireless rooms of cargo ships … Continue reading →

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