The Lively Creation of Contained Beauty
Speaking of inspiring containers this week … I found this little box to be utterly enthralling. This beauty was created by Australia’s Debbie Sheezel. According to the description I found with this on Pinterest, this piece was made using cloisonné wiring and enamel, of course, embedded with pearls on the lid of a sterling silver box.
It is the forms and the coloring here that make this so pleasing to look at. The red and orange feel like fire, but the flames come from a cool, organic green. The loose form of the red lines feel alive and with them all coalescing at the center with its gathering of pearls, you have the rich and glorious feeling that this is a visual metaphor for beauty being created. That is even before you know the piece has been entitled Seed. It’s one of those pieces you enviously realize that the artist made all the right decisions, from color to form to line to accents. Even the fact that it is a box with all its possibilities inside seems right.
Debbie is an uncommonly talented enamel artist. Her work is not only beautiful, but you can feel a liveliness in her pieces that is more than the depth this glass ‘painting’ technique affords the artist. We can get such depth with polymer when we are layering translucents, so it’s possible to get this with our medium. It’s just finding the muse that leads you to such colors and lines that would be the challenge.
See more of Debbie’s beautiful pieces on her website and on this enamel artist’s gathering site, Grains of Glass. What a great name. And what a site. Be careful you don’t get lost in there.
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