Fleur Grenier, Pewter

www.fleurgrenier.co.uk

Fleur completed her M.A. on The Goldsmithing, Silversmithing Metalwork & Jewellery course at The Royal College of Art, London in 1996. In 2001 she returned to W. Sussex and established astudio were she works on one-off commissions and small production pieces.

Her designs are a combination of sculpture and function, using soft flowing lines and feminine curves to enhance the materials and entice people to explore and handle them.

She developed a passion for pewter after discovering it while doing her degree in 1992. She found it to be a material with lots of possibilities, its polished lustre and colour, complimented the tactile quality of her designs.

She only uses lead-free pewter in her work, so unlike old pewter it will not tarnish and become grey. She utilizes a variety of processes such as casting, stamping, hand-forming and etching to produce her designs and has recently also started to work with other materials such as wood and slate, which she incorporates in her designs as they also have a tactile quality which compliments the pewter.