
Theo Raidan
Department Assistant
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Department Assistant

Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Provenance:
Private collection
Purchased from John Higgins Modern and Contemporary Silver selling exhibition June 2010.
JANE SHORT MBE (1954)
Jane was introduced to enamelling in 1974 whilst studying at the Central School of Art and Design, and every work since has been enamelled. In 1976 she studied at The Royal College of Art under Professor Gerald Benney graduating in 1979. Jane is an artist enameller, who combines the techniques of engraving and champlevé and basse-taille enamel to produce rich painterly images drawn from nature.
Jane has become one of the best known and established enamellers, and has taught enamelling widely throughout her career, in 2016 she was awarded an Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the Craft of Enamelling.
She was winner of the Jacques Cartier Memorial Award awarded by the Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Council in 2008 for outstanding craftsmanship.
Jane has exhibited widely and her work is represented in the collections of many important museums, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fitzwilliam and Ashmolean Museums, The Keatley Trust, The Silver Trust Collection for use at 10 Downing Street and the Goldsmiths' Collection.