Gillie Hoyte Byrom

Gillie Hoyte Byrom hand paints enamels for a world-wide clientele. She works mainly to commission to create portrait miniatures using traditional vitreous enamel skills taught to her in Barcelona in 1990. Gillie has further developed these techniques to produce jewel-like heirlooms to be treasured for generations. She particularly enjoys using gold underlay and guilloche to set off the portrait. Gillie’s portraits have won many national and international prizes, notably the prestigious Jacques Cartier Award in the Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design competition. At her studio Gillie offers 1:1 enamel painting tuition to students in UK and abroad and online tuition. She has also published an E-pub: “The Practice of Painting in Enamel”; - a first of its kind; an E-Course in Enamel Painting and a set of four videos demonstrating a full range of techniques including enamel portrait miniature.

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