A three person exhibition of enamel art work earlier this year by Veenu Shah, Kana Lomrur and Jyoti Singh created an enormous interest among art lovers and critics, many of whom were seeing enamels in this context and scale for the first time. Enameling is an exciting, relatively unexplored medium of contemporary art in India. An awareness is being steadily created over the last couple of years, through the activities of the Enamellist Society of Delhi and individual artists elsewhere in the country of the tremendous possibilities of using the age-old craft techniques of firing glass onto metal to fusing temperatures, for art work. The society was established by Veenu Shah, a pioneer in the field, with the dual purpose of training craftspeople in enameling as a value addition to their own areas of expertise and to offer the techniques to individuals who may wish to explore the medium for their personal artistic expression.
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