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Belinda Coyne MSDC

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About Belinda
Belinda Coyne is a Brighton-based artist whose enamelling and metalwork reflect her layers of experience and accumulated memories of diverse landscapes. Her expressive, intuitive approach to enamelling is grounded in a craft-making tradition but defined by a contemporary approach to application methods, scale, and visual language.
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Belinda Coyne is a Brighton-based artist whose enamelling and metalwork reflect her layers of experience and accumulated memories of diverse landscapes.

Her approach to enamelling is expressive and intuitive, grounded in a craft-making tradition but defined by a contemporary approach to application methods, scale, and conceptually engaging with an environmental agenda. She explores notions of space and place using a visual framework of grids, maps, and geometric notation that quantifies space; statistical information layered within an emotional response.

Much of her work has an implicit narrative that addresses contemporary issues of the right to roam and land access. She creates work that stands on its visual merit but also engages with a wider audience, communicating issues through, for example, the specific length of a line, the number of elements in a work, its presentation, the overall size, or the number or shape of a particular mark.

Coyne initially applies hand-painted and sprayed wet process enamel onto steel panels; the steel facilitates extensive reworking and physical intervention.

She incises, rubs, sgraffitos, and brushes back the initial layers, creating gestural marks that echo the landscape. After each kiln firing, she uses a wet stone polisher to abrade the enamel surface, which reveals not only surface marks but also those embedded within the piece.

Through the further interplay of opaque and transparent sieved enamels, Coyne builds visual depth and complexity. Her work is defined by a continual rhythm of addition and subtraction, resulting in pieces that function as quiet dialogues between the landscape and the viewer, inviting them to explore the underlying narrative and agenda rooted within the work.

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Affiliations:

  • MSDC – Society of Designer Craftsmen
  • Art Workers Guild – Creative Connections.
  • Craft Council Directory
  • Design Nation Professional member
  • BSOE – British Society of Enamellers
  • Guild of Enamellers

Exhibitions/Talks:

2025/6

  • Beneath the Surface: Material and Memory, The Hub, National Centre for Craft & Design

2025

  • Handmade in Britain, Chelsea, London
  • ‘Materialised’, Regency Town House, Brighton
  • ‘The Modern Know How’, ‘Feux croisés’, Galerie des Hospices, Limoge, France
  • Sussex Craft Week – Open Studio
  • London Craft Week, Art Workers Guild, ‘The Art of Making’ panel talk

2024

  • Art Workers Guild, Creative Connections exhibition, London
  • Brighton University BA/MA Design & Craft courses - Lectures
  • Decorex, Olympia, London
  • Atelier, Brighton - Summer Exhibition
  • Craftworks, Shoreditch, London
  • British Society of Enamellers, Enamel matters, RBSA Gallery

2023

  • Collect Open, Somerset House, London
  • Collect, Somerset House – Panel talk
  • British Society of Enamellers, Galeri Caernarfon

Employment

  • 2023 – 2024 Part-time Lecturer Brighton University, BA 3D Design and Craft
  • 2022 - 2022 Part Time Lecturer Metropolitan College Brighton, Art Foundation
  • 2022 – present Self-employed Artist-Maker
  • 2006 – present Private Tutor –Art/Design/Photography - Degree, Foundation and A’ level
  • 1:1 enamelling classes
  • 1998 – 2019 Teacher of Design, Art and Photography
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