email: anne.appleyard@virgin.net

My passion for enamelling is the result of a journey of exploration with various media. The materials and processes involved in this magical art allow me to express and reflect my personal experience and concerns with growth, balance and cohesion.

This I aim to achieve by blending seemingly conflicting ideas or contrasting materials and techniques. Trying to marry the industrial with the precious, the mechanical with the natural, the spiritual with the physical.

It is important that a piece of work is allowed to evolve, that the materials have a voice, that I work intuitively as well as with structure. I like to respond to the materials, letting them suggest the next stage for an item of jewellery, a vessel or wall panel. Each part of the processes involved is of equal importance and should combine to form a unified piece.

I produce small collections of contemporary wearable silver jewellery in simple designs. Gemstones are often incorporated into the pieces in order that their properties, together with the therapeutic effects of the enamel colours, both enhance and uplift the owner.

Making individual, more complex, pieces, sometimes with a combined function or some element that can be exchanged, allow me to fully explore the medium and combine different techniques and materials. I show my work at galleries & exhibitions. Visits to my purpose built studio in Buckinghamshire are by appointment.

Annie graduated from Ravensbourne College of Art & Design in 1981 with a 1st class honours degree in Fine Art. More recently she has studied precious metal jewellery making and enamelling at Sir John Cass Art School.

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