Katie Sanderson, Enamel Artist
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Over the last 16 years I have explored enamelling through experimentation. After first being introduced to it by my mum, who when I moved away from home packed me a kiln and a box of enamel powders. I then became mainly self-taught through embracing the freedom of the kiln, its outcomes not always being predicable.
I’ve expanded on that first box of enamel powders, and now bring in many techniques to my pieces. One of my projects focussing on dogs has seen me sketching many breeds and then colourfully producing them in vivid enamel, with pattern and texture.
I find enamelling incredibly satisfying every single time a piece goes in the kiln I know once it's out and cooling I will see a different result every time. I love how it can be at once incredibly unpredictable yet also an art form that with time and experience you can learn its patterns, its tricks, how temperatures play a huge part, how depths of enamel change the outcome, how one method can interact with another. Sometimes I feel like an alchemist and other times I am totally at its mercy unable to predict what the kiln will bring me, but enjoying that anticipation.
I aim to bring that sense of excitement and anticipation to my enamelling workshops where I love introducing people to this magical art form.
My inspirations are broad it comes from what I see around me the built world as well as the natural. I often pick up leaves, stones or photograph flowers for their colours and textures. Other times it is a walls pattern or a buildings shape that inspire me. I'm always on the look-out, anything that provides a new combination of colour and texture draws me to it
I’ve expanded on that first box of enamel powders, and now bring in many techniques to my pieces. One of my projects focussing on dogs has seen me sketching many breeds and then colourfully producing them in vivid enamel, with pattern and texture.
I find enamelling incredibly satisfying every single time a piece goes in the kiln I know once it's out and cooling I will see a different result every time. I love how it can be at once incredibly unpredictable yet also an art form that with time and experience you can learn its patterns, its tricks, how temperatures play a huge part, how depths of enamel change the outcome, how one method can interact with another. Sometimes I feel like an alchemist and other times I am totally at its mercy unable to predict what the kiln will bring me, but enjoying that anticipation.
I aim to bring that sense of excitement and anticipation to my enamelling workshops where I love introducing people to this magical art form.
My inspirations are broad it comes from what I see around me the built world as well as the natural. I often pick up leaves, stones or photograph flowers for their colours and textures. Other times it is a walls pattern or a buildings shape that inspire me. I'm always on the look-out, anything that provides a new combination of colour and texture draws me to it
Contact Details
Part of the farOpen Studios Art Trail 6-14 July 2024
Katie shares Emma O'Brennan Wilful Ink's Studio 78, see the Open Studios 2024 Trail Map + Brochure
with Laura Liddell and Elizabeth Heather Engel.
The Old Congregational Chapel
Ruardean
GL17 9TJ
07727639447
[email protected]
Website
Part of the farOpen Studios Art Trail 6-14 July 2024
Katie shares Emma O'Brennan Wilful Ink's Studio 78, see the Open Studios 2024 Trail Map + Brochure
with Laura Liddell and Elizabeth Heather Engel.
The Old Congregational Chapel
Ruardean
GL17 9TJ
07727639447
[email protected]
Website
