email: penny@gildea15.freeserve.co.uk

While I was taking a part time diploma in jewellery design, I decided to explore enamelling techniques as a means to enhance my work. This was many years ago and since then enamelling has become an obsession and occupies much of my time and thoughts.

Line, shape and function are very important in my work, but I think that colour or the use of it is the most dominant aspect. Today I use only transparent and transluscent enamels - as I used to paint with water colours - because these enamels can be blended and combined to create endless possibilities. The passage of light through many layers shows off the qualities of polished and textured precious metal better than any other technique or treatment. It is this playful quality of enamel that I try to bring to my work.

I sell mainly directly to the public through selling exhibitions such as Centrepiece at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, but my work can also be seen in the Desire Gallery in Stourbridge, Artfull Expressions in Hockley and the Discovery Centre.

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