email: mail@janinepartington.co.uk

I came late to enamelling. Following a BA at Sheffield Polytechnic in History of Art, Design and Film and an MA at Leicester University in Museum Studies in the early 1990s, I took up a career as a museum curator. However, whilst taking a break to have children I took a part-time course at Filton College, Bristol in enamelling. I am now a full-time maker with outlets including The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, Platform Gallery, Lancashire and the Gallery on the Square, St Ives. 

My work combines the traditional craft of enamelling with fresh, clean, contemporary design to create framed panels, standing figures and jewellery. 

Enamelling is the art of fusing glass on to metal. It is durable, strong and colour-fast. I create intricate hand-cut stencils which I then lay on to copper. My stencils are inspired by trees, flowers, seed heads and landscape. After sifting the powdered enamel over the stencil I fire the piece at 800°C. This process is repeated many times until the work is finished. Whilst I reuse stencils, no two pieces are identical due to the nature of the process. 

I was elected as a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 2007. I became a full member of the British Society of Enamellers in 2009. I am also a member of DesignGap, Visual and Southbank Bristol Arts.

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