Caroline Finlay
Caroline studied at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen and designs and makes tactile and colourful enamelled jewellery and small pieces in Fife, Scotland. She works mainly in silver and vitreous enamel. She explores traditional enamelling and jewellery making techniques in a spontaneous and experimental way to create mark making, textures and form inspired by the Scottish coastline. Each stage is made by hand; she prefers the fluidity this gives her work; nothing is identical and she enjoys the connection this gives with each piece. Both transparent and opaque enamels are used in variations of traditional Champlevé and Basse- taille techniques as well as stencilling and stoning, matt and glossy finishes. She loves and needs to use colour in her work and enamel gives her a palette that echoes the light, seascape, plants, flotsam and sea life found on the shoreline.
