Janine
Partington

Janine Partington found the craft of enamelling through adult education evening classes in Bristol in 2002 and very quickly fell in love with it. As interested in the design as the process, Janine strives to combine the traditional craft of enamelling with fresh, clean and contemporary design to create framed panels, standing figures, vessels, and jewellery.

Enamelling is the art of fusing glass on to metal. It is durable, strong and colourfast. Janine creates intricate hand-cut stencils which she then lays on to copper. Her stencils are inspired by birds, trees, flowers, seed heads and the landscape. After sifting the powdered enamel over the stencil Janine fires the piece at 800°C. This process is repeated many times until the work is finished. Whilst she re-use stencils, no two pieces are identical due to the nature of the process. Her beautifully simple images are transformed into something

Veronica
Smith

Veronica’s stained glass is inspired by wildlife and nature, and always imbued with gothic themes – she like’s to add a bit of mystery!

Her stained glass is all hand painted, usually with several layers of glass paint and also silver stain, and then kiln-fired.

Veronica’s stained glass journey began in 2009, when she began studying its history and development from the Middle Ages to the present day. She also studied and researched the social and cultural history of nineteenth century stained glass.

Veronica finds it thrilling to work with such a fascinating medium as stained glass. She uses a lot of mouth-blown antique glass which adds depth and atmosphere to my pieces and  lets herself be guided by the glass when formulating her work.