Enamelist Karen L. Cohen - Closionne Donations to The Enamel Guild/NE Joint Projects







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Donations to the EG/NE

I belong to the Enamel Guild/NE - each year, with items provided by our members, we make a mural and donate it to a hospital or equivalent place. Here are some more pieces that I've made and donated. The photo to the right shows our logo which we had cast, and then each of us can enamel it ourselves; I made mine into a pin.

2008 Donation. The theme was "Garden of the Imagination".

3" x 4" copper tile with reticulated gold and silver foils, gold foil dragon fly and P3 underglaze painted to look like a Chinese Brush Painting of a vining flower.

2005 Donation. The theme was "Blue and Orange" or "Complements".

3" copper tile with unleaded crackle enamel, gold leaf and gold decals.

2003/4 Donation. The Theme was "The Rain Forest"

3" copper tile with unleaded enamel, gold and silver foil, lumps, beads, flower wafers, silver overglaze and varigated lumps.

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A 2.5" piece was made for a joint project of the Enamel Guild/NE 2001. The resulting mural is a healing mendella doanted to Sloan Kettering.

The theme was from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 : "To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven..."

My interpretation:
Central Yin Yang - balance of life
4 Directions - Native Am. healing; each section thus formed has the colors of one season and a design element:

Sprial of life (fall)

Life Line (winter

Trine - leads the spirit towards growth; it is an elevation of the personal spirit as it relates to this existence, a rising from the earth. (spring)

Circle - The Circle not only calls forth polar energies; it pulls them together and resolves them (summer)

Choku Rei (engraved at bottom) - Reiki Power Symbol - put power here

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2000 Donation - my 1st one.

The theme was "Patterns of my LIfe"

Thus I have a (stylized) woman's symbol whose center is a specialized ying/yang, an oriental flower (I'm into oriental art - see the the plum blossom ring and bank top below), the background is a basse taille of swirls (I'm a very high energy person), the border brings the flower stem into a circle (all things come back to the beginning), silver balls on the buds (I love granulation work) and purple in the piece (my favorite color).

This cloisonne had 23 firings. The last inlcuded the application of fine silver balls to the "buds" in the outer frame of the tile.