Trackside Gallery, located in Acton, London, www.tracksidegallery.co.uk hosted a BSOE exhibition in Nov, 2006. Twenty six members, including full members and associates, took part in the handsome display of enamels. See below for pictures of work from some of the exhibitors. Click on images or name to go to the member's page.

Pat Johnson	Evangeline Long	Ulla Huttenan	Louise Richards

The BSOE Newsletter wrote:

Open to all members of the BSOE, both full and associates, the exhibition held at the Trackside Gallery from Oct 25 to Nov 12, 2006, looked elegant and showed work across a wide range of enamelling techniques of very high standard. Six of the exhibiting enamellers attended the preview and commented on the handsome display.

Twenty six members took part. Louise Richards, full member and proprietor of Trackside displayed all the pieces, except the silver and gold jewellery, out in the open, which allowed the visitors to the gallery to have an immediate experience of the works on display. Most of the small panels, and those in conventional frames, were laid out on plinths or shelves, where they were easily seen. The large pieces on the walls were instrumental in creating the initial appearance of the exhibition to visitors as they entered the gallery.

It is always hard for photographs to convey the overall impression of an enamelling exhibition, which is very dependent on the layout of the work on display. The pictures accompanying this article are largely chosen to show how well this done at Trackside. The arrangement of the jewellery in the cases, which worked with the available lighting, contributed hugely to the impact of the exhibition. By using clear perspex to mount the pieces, the light was allowed access to all the shelves in the display cases, with the work lower down being able to take advantage of some interestingly shaped shadows, coming from above, to frame the work.

By inventively grouping the relatively small panels that can be fired in the kilns used by artist enamellers, the enamellers making the larger works shown in the exhibition made the point that enamels need not necessarily be confined to the small scale. This will be an important consideration in future exhibitions planned by the Society 

Four members contributed enamelled copper bowls to the exhibition, which proved to be popular with the visitors. These collections were displayed in four different ways which helped to emphasize their uniqueness.

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