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Enamelling on Steel
Margot Page
says, "it seems I have always been travelling somewhere
I was born in India in 1944 and spent my childhood in England.
My family moved to Montreal when I was 11 years old.."
It was there
in Montreal that Margot started out as a freelance Fashion Illustrator.
In 1969 she was hired by Sheridan College School of Visual arts
in Oakville, Ontario, to teach drawing to fashion design students.
Three years later she was teaching general drawing and searching
for another medium for her own drawings which had always been
in black and white. Another instructor introduced her to the
art form of Enamelling. She has been producing enamels ever since.
The glazes
are fine powders which when heated in a kiln, fuse into lustrous
hues of molten glass. Margot uses sheet steel as the ground for
her glazes. She cuts the steel with a table band-saw using carbon
blades.
In 1986
she and her partner sailed to Vancouver Island. Now, after 10
years of travelling the world's oceans, Margot's resulting enamelled
images, a variety of seabirds, flowers and exotica, have been
mounted onto glass vases, blocks and plates and are available
from Imagine That! Artisans' designs in Duncan, B.C.
Margot welcomes
special commissions
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