New Work

If you`ve seen my work over the past few years, you may have noticed that it has developed in different ways. I originally introduced colour to my work by using resins and cold enamels. These days, I`ve shifted mainly to hot vitreous enameling and I`m not looking back to be honest.

I love the depth of colour and glossiness that can be achieved from vitreous enamels and like the fact that this ground up glass is actually fused to the metal. I found that proper vitreous enamelers could be a bit snooty (rightly so) about my cold enamel work because it wasn`t "real" enamel. There is really a lot more skill with vitreous enamel as it takes time to figure out firing times as each enamel can reacts differently and even just applying the stuff is quite a skill.

Clustering has become a bit of a trend in recent times with many jewellers like Ruth Tomlinson, Polly wales, Katie Lees, Joanne Macfadyen to name a few that have explored this aesthetic in their work. I wanted to try my own interpretation of this by using clustering flowers. These have been achieved through cad design, rapid prototyping and casting, then stone set and enameled. See more at www.barbara-macleod.com