Metal

Evolving for millennium, since the discovery of smelting various ores, melting and hammering to form both practical and beautiful objects. From this bases developments using casting, using lost wax techniques, embossing (repousse where the image is hammered from the reverse side, engraving and etching to mention just a few.

The finished forms are often enamelled, gilded and patinated giving surface gloss or textures both delicate and robust. All these techniques are represented in Water Street Gallery through our talented contemporary craft artists, a refreshing defiance to mass-production in seeing and handling original art objects.