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Jayne fuses glass to
metal - copper being her metal of choice. The glass has a
consistency of granulated sugar and comes in all colors, both opaque
and transparent. Glass is applied to the copper and then fired in a
kiln at a temperature of about 1400 for a couple of minutes. The
design is built up using several layers of enamel with a firing
after each. Both sides of the copper must be enameled to prevent it
from warping.
Most of the pieces she creates are framed wall hangings and jewelry,
but she does a lot of electrical outlet and switch plates to match
someone's wall paper, bowls, plates, pill boxes, etc.
Jayne also makes dichroic jewelry. She cuts the glass and fuse the
"stones" in her kiln using two pieces of regular art glass
to sandwich the special dichroic glass. This takes about 7 or 8
hours of carefully ramping up the temperature in the kiln and then
after reaching a full fuse state, slowly and carefully lowering the
temp so as not to crack the glass. After "baking" the
glass she wraps it with silver or gold wire and fashions it into
pendants and earrings.
Enameling is Jayne's favorite thing to do because there is no
other medium in which one can achieve the same degree of brilliance
and depth of color. And then there is frequently that certain
unexplainable something that happens in the kiln during one of the
firings that takes your breath away. She says, "Most of the
time this is a good thing; sometimes not so much".
Jayne has been enameling for about 30 years, but she has been
interested in art for as long as she can remember. Even when demands
of job and family prevented her from actually creating art for long
periods of time, she was always storing up ideas, mental pictures,
experiments she wanted to try, etc. She
learned enameling from Sister Consilia at Ancilla College and also attended several enameling workshops at Arrowmont School of Art
in Gatlinburg, TN studying from some of the top enamelists in the
field: Linda Darty and Jean Tudor. "Thank goodness, life presented me with free times periodically
so that I could do something creative before I burst. I think all
artists understand what I mean and probably have experienced the
same thing"
Some of Jayne's favorite pieces are: Snow scene with farm buildings,
a meadow with a pond, and a pair of pictures with squash. Each time
someone buys one of her pieces she is absolutely thrilled that
someone likes it well enough to spend their hard-earned money on
it!! She has received many awards in the Heartland Fall Show, as
well as First Place in the 2011 Small Wonders Show and has also won Best of Show at Lakeland's Art Exhibit.
Jayne displays her work at the Heartland Gallery. She is teaching a series of enameling classes
at the Moontree
Community Studios.
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