janine
Janine started her journey as an artist at seventeen, learning the traditional and historical arts of stained glass and sculpting in bronze and clay. Eager to learn more, she turned to the age-old practices of gold and silversmithing: shaping metal with a jeweller’s saw, forging with hammers, repoussé in pitch, raising and sinking shapes on cast-iron stakes, soldering and riveting to achieve the final piece.
It was Janine’s love of enamelling with glass on silver that led her back to the study of stained glass. This intensified her desire to create unique shapes in glass, and to that end employ techniques including casting, slumping, fusing, dalle-de-verre and plique-a-jour. Each of these is like a different language that she employed to express moods or nuances within her designs.