I've always been a creator, during my career years I worked in old school IT, programming and business analysis etc. which I've always thought of as a creative endeavor. I also have an ever expanding interest in cooking, gardening, sewing, photography.
I've been involved with the Tribal bellydance diaspora for many years since around 2005. During that time as well as running a festival and many events I began importing jewellery, clothing and accoutrements for costuming for the genre and set up an online store to sell them.
Influenced by my involvement with the tribal community and because I had all these tribal type components coming into my home I began making simple jewellery to add to my store, that morphed over time through various stages and types of jewellery assembly into handmade copper jewellery.
I was becoming hooked on jewellery making but something was missing, I was searching for something more than just assembling components, I wanted more artistic input and I was searching for colour, lots and lots of colour.
I tried lots of patinas for copper, and flame painting copper but that wasn't enough.
I ended up broadening my search for colour options for copper and I stumbled upon Vitreous Enamels, how fascinating that you can do all these wonderful things with coloured, powdered glass on copper, then I found out about china paints, ceramic stains, glass beads, millefiori, glass rods, lampworked beads, metal foils and silver as a base or as a wire to hold enamels, a cornucopia of options and methods that can be used with enamels, the list was exciting and endless as is the ongoing learning curve.....
More to come...
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