Active artists

Creativity, painting, drawing, creating objects, sewing, designing jewelry, I saw this as a necessity for my life from an early age and practiced it intensively. Then, during my studies, and later in addition to my university job as a university teacher and my freelance work as a technical translator and […]

I am an artist and my studio is in the Uden area. I work with goldsmith design and attended four years of evening drawing school and two years of Paris art school. Besides the CKI I am also a member of the artist group Kubra, which unites artists from Brabant. […]

My name is Rob Vermeer. I was born in Amsterdam in 1946 and I am currently living in Valkenswaard in the Netherlands. I am an autodidact in arts and have been painting for many years. Apart from painting in oil and acrylic, I started to work with enamel and became […]

Petra Werland, born on 6th of February 1959 Some years ago, I took part in several enameling classes offered by Ingeborg Martin. From my school days, I still knew enameling and working with colour and fire and was immediately “on fire” again for this creative design. My husband Peter shares […]

Peter Werland, born on 12th of August 1954 Growing up on the beautiful Middle Moselle, I like wine and culture. More than 30 years ago my wife and I moved to Monzelfeld in the nearby Hunsrück. Only a few years ago I became interested in working with enamel. My wife […]

Born on 12th of April 1947 in Grünstadt in the Pfalz Education as social pedagogue I have been working with enamel since 1969 1971 to 1975 study visit in Johannesburg / South Africa in the enamel studio “Forma Viva”, there active as a designer for jewelry, after my return to […]

Already as child I watched my mother Mechthild Häusler and the workshop community feuerfarbe enameling and was fascinated. For almost 10 years I have now also enameled myself. I am fascinated by the variety of possible techniques, the different results and the expressive colours. The result is never exactly predictable, […]

As studied goldsmith, I am fascinated by the beautiful colours of enamel. I make bracelets, necklaces and rings in enamel. In 2005 I started with opaque enamels. After several workshops with specialists like Phil Barnes, I now work mainly with transparent enamels. I am inspired by nature and I love […]

I have worked with conventional techniques (oil, acrylic, watercolor) for years. A few years ago, I visited the enamel-museum in Himmerod and discovered the technique of enameling. It fascinated me in such a way that I am totally addicted to it. My main focus is painting with industrial enamel on […]

Born in Mercydorf/Banat in 1921, father Mathias Svoboda, mother Margarethe born Schlesinger German elementary and high school, graduation with teacher diploma 2 years art school in Temesvar, department sculpture and drawing, final exam with bust “PUSCHKIN” in 1949 Art school in Cluj-Napoca, 12 semester of study of painting, state exam […]

For me it is a challenge to create beautiful and artistic jewelry from precious metals. I design everything myself and each jewelry is unique. Besides jewelry with or without enamel, I use precious stones. I work in the techniques cloisonné, ronde-bosse, émail-peint, champlevé, basse-taille, grisaille and plique-à-jour. I not only […]

I have been working with enamel on copper since 1980. The joy of the clear and strong colors and the play with light brought me to it. I found the guidance over many years with the enamelist Wera Ostwaldt. Since 1990 I work in my workshop in Berlin on the […]

Mary Mulder from Netherlands was chairwoman of the CKI from 2011 till 20201. She completed her 7-year education with the “Diploma Monumantale” at the “Acedemie voor Schone Kunsten” in Belgium. During her education she specialized in working with enamel. She also attended seminars with German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and […]

I was born in 1951 in Nürnberg, I live and work in Fürth near Nürnberg. Artistic collaboration with the enamel artists Nicolaus Kirchner and Burkhard Schürmann Exhibition participation 2006 Enamelling Arstist Assn, at the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo 2009 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum: enamel works “Art in the city” Art […]

Klaus Ruhmann, born on 15th of August 1953 1976 until 1981 efco Fornell & Co. Pforzheim-Huchenfeld Assistant to the management, enamel training in the efco studio with Gertrud Rittmann-Fischer, Prof. Lochmüller, Stegemail, product development, export management, trade fairs, lecturer for enamel courses at home and abroad 1981 until 1983 hobbygross […]

I was born in Neumarkt/Opf in 1954. Since 1975 I live and work in Bergheim near Cologne. In 2011 I took over my father’s enamel workshop. In addition to participating in various training workshops with other enamel artists such as Nikolaus Kirchner and Angelika Simon-Rößler and attending several goldsmith courses, […]

Born in 1940 in Solingen-Ohligs, the artist grew up in her hometown of Wassenberg. She is married and has two grown-up children. For more than 30 years, Rita Gehlen-Marx has been engaged in the already ancient art of painting on silk, which she uses as a vehicle for the realization […]

I have enameled for more than 30 years in the workshop community feuerfarbe and have created various enamel works together with other enamelers (Alban Fritz, Lea Häusler, …). Everyone works in their own way and their own style. For some custom work, e.g. for the public, we work intensively together, […]