email: bsoe@designden.plus.com

My panels are mainly executed on copper sheet. They can be single panels or linked in arrangements which are at times free standing and otherwise intended for wall display.

A particular theme recently has been the interplay of man and nature and the visible effects of one upon the other – man’s mark left upon the earth and the eroding over time of the built environment. Sources for the images derive from landscape, architecture, and natural form.

Specific inspiration has been drawn from distressed or weathered architectural fabric such as old stone and rendered or corrugated sheet buildings. The textured surfaces of these buildings have encouraged a wide-spread exploitation of the ways in which enamel can be applied expressively and further developed by over-firing in order to extend the effects. Working with powdered jewellery enamels I manipulate them in such as way that the outcome can best be described as painterly. Trained as a sculptor, I also explore the way in which copper sheet can be cut and formed three-dimensionally and then enamelled.

Commissions have taken the form of sets of enamelled panels – sometimes copper, sometimes steel – used as embellishment for church tabernacles and for large scale murals on cruise liners, or for domestic interiors.

My work is in public and private collections: I exhibit regularly nationally and internationally and I work to commission and for gallery shows.
Contact: maureen.carswell@which.net

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