Harriet St. Leger
Harriet first tried enamelling at college many years ago but discarded it after leaving, as being too difficult! However after making jewellery and teaching for many years she took it up again when she was offered a free place on a course where she was teaching and has never looked back.
Harriet enjoyed the freedom of enamelling on larger pieces of copper after the fiddly jewellery making. She experimented with copper, steel and silver and as many techniques as she could discover.
She realised that engraving the silver before enamelling creates beautiful effects on silver so Harriet studied engraving with various teachers - another technique that is ‘too difficult’!. She now engraves all her silver work before enamelling and is gradually improving her skills.
Harriet’s great love is colour and the vibrancy and experimentation with different colours inspires her work. She also has a range of enamelled copper jewellery. The copper pieces are a nice contrast to her silver work and are quicker to make so provide a relief from the more time consuming pieces.
Her inspiration comes from natural forms, pods, leaves and buds and from fruit and vegetables. Her designs are bold and graphic and stylise the natural forms.
