Enamelling

Navah Langmeyer

January 8th -9th 2027

10-4pm

Brighten your January! 2 days in the studio nestled around kilns and kindred creatives a perfect way to launch into the New Year!

Come learn how to use vitreous enamels on copper to add colour and surface interest using Cloisonne and Eutectic methods with Navah an award winning enamel artist.  Our focus will be based on eutectic and cloisonné methods. Basic experience and understanding of working with enamel will be helpful as this is not aimed at a total beginner.

During each day you will make a series of copper tiles using vitreous enamels using kiln and/or torch method. You will be able to experiment either or both methods.   Once completed you will choose your favourite test tile to turn into a pendant to wear. You will be encouraged to practice fabrication techniques such as drilling, roller printing, sawpiercing, accurate filing methods, and various finishing and texture techniques to prepare your tiles.

This is an excellent opportunity for those who wish to improve and gain new skills and techniques. This course is ideal for those with a little fabrication experience i.e. familiar with a sawframe and torch use.

We will cover types of enamels, where to buy, best practices, how to use grain size to your advantage, overlays, transparent and opaques, firing techniques, finishing and trouble shooting. For those with experience you can try out simple hand engraving textures for any transparent enamels you bring.

Rachel Hearne Jewellery School

7-9 The Glassworks, Lancaster, LA1 1NZ

£280 including copper and a selection of vitreous enamels ** however you are welcome to bring in your own vitreous enamels we will fire between 800-840C

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