Kiln Fired Enamelling with Kate Sanderson

Kate is a Forest of Dean based enamel artist of 16 years, and when she thinks of her work and relationship with this ancient art form the words magical, mystical, unpredictable, absorbing, and transforming all come to mind. 

She leans towards the more experimental approaches pushing the materials and tools further pursuing unique results. 

Her work is focussed on creating pieces of work that can be hung in the home but it all started with jewellery and that is where she goes to play with the techniques.  

Most of her work involves the wet packing, stencilling, sgraffito, adding decorative media and high firing techniques all of which will be covered in the workshop.

Course Aims

On this two day workshop you will produce at least 6 pieces these will be small pictures as well jewellery such as pendants, earrings. On the first day we will cover sieving, stencilling, wet packing, adding decoration and sgraffito using opaque enamels. On the second day we will cover high firing, swirling, transparent enamels, adding fine silver foil. All enamelling will be done on copper and copper will be provided already cut.

During the course you will produce a small, enamelled picture using the wet pack method, the subject matter to be a landscape or seascape. You will have the option to produce more than one picture so students are welcome to bring a few photos to work from.

You will also produce pendants and earrings exploring a variety of techniques, as mentioned above.

Equipment

No special equipment is needed.

The tutor will provide:

• Copper shapes and copper shim
• Unleaded enamels
• Fine silver foil
• Decorative media
• Jewellery findings

At an approximate cost of £15-20 pp