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Arts and cultureYou are in: North Yorkshire > Entertainment > The Arts > Arts and culture > Enamel magnetism  Inside Lynne's kiln Enamel magnetismBy Alan Webber Lynne Glazzard designs contemporary jewellery at her studio in Glaisdale, near Whitby. She launched her business after 20 years working as a legal clerk, a degree in interior design, and some part-time lecturing. Now she's obsessed by her work!  Enamel being applied Lynne taught herself to enamel, applying a very finely-ground coloured glass onto metal and melting it with a blowtorch or a kiln. "It鈥檚 quite addictive. I very quickly realised I needed to learn all kinds of other skills to support it." Career changeShe began to teach herself silver smithing in "a very crude way" and joined the Guild of Enamellers. This gave her the chance to attend classes with more experienced enamellers.  Cutting out silver At the time she was working as a part-time lecturer in design history at the University of Lincoln and for Hull University. Gradually more galleries took her work and eventually it began to conflict with her teaching. With the help of grants from Scarborough Council and the Arts Council she gave up the teaching and became a full-time jewellery designer. Since then she has produced a number of distinctive ranges.  Pendants by Lynne Glazzard Lynne works in a barn which has been converted into a studio a couple of miles outside the Moors village of Glaisdale. She admits the location is isolated but also inspirational. Obsessed鈥淚 absolutely love it. Occasionally I go slightly mad I think , I don鈥檛 see many people! But the landscape is so beautiful, it鈥檚 inspirational.鈥  Lynne Glazzard Lynne says the hardest part of the job is trying to promote her work and she relies on galleries for the vast majority of her sales. She makes earrings, pendants and other jewellery from silver, copper and aluminium.
鈥淚鈥檓 completely obsessed by it I think, I鈥檇 live in here. I have been known occasionally to come in the middle of the night, to get up because something has been burning in my head and I have had to come and finish something off or try something out. I鈥檓 terrible. I live too near! If I want a day off I have to physically go somewhere else otherwise I drift into here." Take a look at some of Lynne Glazzard's work. last updated: 03/06/2008 at 14:54 You are in: North Yorkshire > Entertainment > The Arts > Arts and culture > Enamel magnetism
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