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Tadas Deksnys

  • Enameller
  • Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Master Artisan
Tadas Deksnys Enameller
Contact
Lithuanian, English, Russian
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+370 61674136
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The joyful marriage of metal and enamel

  • • Tadas has always enjoyed minute work
  • • Jewellery making conquered physics as a life passion
  • • To him, enamel adds depth and joy to metal

From an early age, Tadas Deksnys has been attracted to small objects requiring meticulousness. As a child, he liked to draw, glued models of ships and planes and attended a telemechanics class. He enjoyed it so much that he enrolled in physics after leaving school. But it was not long before jewellery making became more appealing. Tadas enrolled at the Telšiai Higher School of Fine Arts and graduated with a degree in metalworking art. He has been making jewellery in titanium, gold, silver, and precious stones for many years. Today, he dedicates most of his attention to enamel techniques that can be applied to metal. He forges and shapes decorative vessels and forms out of metal, coating them with colourful enamel. Tadas' work has been exhibited many times in Lithuania and abroad. His vessels and dimensional forms are an opportunity to combine classical techniques with the new possibilities of enamel.

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Works

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Harmony earrings

Made of yellow gold 750 and clear enamel, these earrings are the perfect combination for a jewellery maker. Through the clear enamel layer, the shimmering gold ornaments are visible, reflecting the light from different angles and creating a lively dance of shimmers.

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Form I

The decorative shape of this vessel is hand-forged from copper sheet, preserving the irregularities, and covered with several layers of clear enamel. Through the transparent enamel layers, an abstract copper oxide pattern is visible, covering the entire surface of the vessel.

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Ring

This ring is decorated with hand-engraving and black rhodium-plated ornaments, which resemble round bubbles on the surface of the water. Similar ripples appear when pebbles are thrown into the water.

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Frost, Yellow bracelet

Frost is a fleeting natural phenomenon that fascinates Tadas Deksnys, with its temporary and unpredictable pattern and ornamentation. At the touch of a hand, it can simply melt away. This is a bracelet made of corrugated stainless steel sheet, rolled and covered with yellow enamel to become fragile and frosted.

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IIxIII

These copper vessels were hammer-forged from copper sheet and coated with several layers of enamel. The inside and the outside of the vessels are different. The outside is coated with an opaque layer of black enamel with a coating on top, which adds further colour and reflection to the surface of the vessels.

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