All posts by Elizabeth Turrell
More images from the Shemer Art Center and Museum Phoenix – from Elizabeth
From Elizabeth – still working – deadline tomorrow – flight on Sunday.
Looking forward to seeing all the work for Heat Exchange 
Jantar Mantar, India
Images from Delhi. Here are a few of the everyday objects made with skill and an understanding of the the materials used.
Images from the Enamelist Society Workshop: Vitreous Enamel for Public Art lead by Amal Ghosh, Iris Hudson Ghosh and Elizabeth Turrell at the Vasind facility of JSW Steel Limited
Enamel workshop in Vasind India January 2012
Surface & Substance
Surface & Substance International Contemporary Enamel Jewellery exhibition curated by Jessica Turrell – Ruthin Craft Centre Denbighshire, Wales. 19 November 2011 – 15 January 2012
Brooches – Elizabeth Turrell
These wearable pieces are forms of an in-memoriam marker, a silent message that may elicit a feeling of melancholia or disquiet. I hope they may encourage conversation. In the pieces that use image and text – there is more than you see – parts are hidden.
Materials and process are a significant part in the thinking and making of this work – that chemical bond of glass on metal. It is the inherent qualities of this material that attracts me at a sensory and aesthetic level.
Using thin white pre-enamelled steel – a functional factory produced material – gives me a bland surface with none of the usual preciousness associated with enamelled jewellery. I am entranced by the different qualities obtainable by piercing and altering the white surface to reveal the qualities of the steel substrate. I like the limitation set by this single material.
These pieces are an attempt to transform and extend the traditional concept of vitreous enamel on metal: the glassy, the decorative, and the perfect surface. This material seemed best suited to express and clarify my intentions.
