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An architect by training, Janine Greenberg moved from South Africa to London five years ago. Prior to this time she had been painting and making mixed media jewellery for many years, but had always wanted to study enamelling. With a passion for colour, she enrolled on the diploma course at London Guildhall University and graduated last July, having been particularly encouraged by Joan MacKarell to explore her own style.

Janine writes: ‘I am psychic artist and am currently embarking on a long project which incorporates my spiritual beliefs through work with painting, crystals, and jewellery making.‘ She has designed a series of 31 cards, each which bears an image of a angel on one side and an explanation of the angel’s message on the other. Users of the cards will draw one each morning and be motivated and guided by the message during the day. By the time the cards are published, Janine will have made enamelled pieces of jewellery based on the forms of the angels and incorporating their associated crystals. She sees this as a basis for starting a business but also cares deeply that her work and ideas will communicate with people. She wants her work with colours and totems to be tools of inspiration and power.

The Butterfly Necklace commemorates the changes in Janine Greenberg’s life after she moved to London. It expresses metamorphosis and coming out. For Janine, making her work has to be fun. She likes to play.

(Article taken from the BSOE newsletter, Winter 2003 issue)