Jordi
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Finally! In october 2007 I opened my new hand engraving workshop in Barcelona, Spain.
Right now, this is the best fine hand engraving studio in Spain, comparable to the best international studios. I can engrave highly detailed and resembled portraits, my speciality; custom designs and artistic scenes; bulino and banknote engraving, etc...
I can also teach on a one-to-one basis, or demonstrate how tools work, either with the Gravermach or with the Lindsay Airgraver. Don’t hesitate to visit my shop if you ever come to Barcelona.
This is the end of a long learning process that started six years ago...
After two years of daily training at the Catalan Jeweler's Guild School with master engraver Antoni Padró, learning the traditional hand-pushed engraving methods, I decided to try a pneumatic tool (no engravers had it in my city). The first information I got from this technology came from Steve Lindsay's web page. I contacted him and he kindly sold me a Chasing Airgraver. What a change!
Later on, as I joined the Knife embellishment forum, an american engraver that came to Barcelona for holidays contacted me just to change impressions about our work: he was Christian Decamillis. Having such a great engraver in my city, I couldn't avoid asking him "Where can I learn more?†and he kindly said “I can teach you, if you are able to go to the USâ€.
That’s how I ended up in January 2005 in Reno. There I could meet so many great engravers! I met personally Steve Lindsay, Bertil Aasland, Rick Eaton, Eric Gold, Brian Marshall, Johny Weyerts,… among many others. After the show I spent one month learning from Chris, with a Gravermax. That was the most intense and valuable learning experience I’ve ever had. I could also learn from the work of David Riccardo and Jason Marchiafava. I still share with David my enthusiasm for artistic engraving and printmaking.
Back to Spain again I started to get some work from a local armourer. I've also engraved jewelery for the past 4 years. I travelled around and could meet other great engravers like Sam Alfano, Lee Griffiths,… and attended the Grand Masters Weekend at Emporia in 2006, where I met many more great engravers there (I won’t say all the names for the list is long), as well as the kind people from GRS.
I’ve also studied an interesting introduction to stone setting at Magnus Jensen’s school in Sweden. And now, all my efforts consist in showing artists about the dignity and potential of hand engraved art.
And that’s enough for today… Words of thanks are mandatory to all of you who have encouraged me in this long way to engraving.
Right now, this is the best fine hand engraving studio in Spain, comparable to the best international studios. I can engrave highly detailed and resembled portraits, my speciality; custom designs and artistic scenes; bulino and banknote engraving, etc...
I can also teach on a one-to-one basis, or demonstrate how tools work, either with the Gravermach or with the Lindsay Airgraver. Don’t hesitate to visit my shop if you ever come to Barcelona.
This is the end of a long learning process that started six years ago...
After two years of daily training at the Catalan Jeweler's Guild School with master engraver Antoni Padró, learning the traditional hand-pushed engraving methods, I decided to try a pneumatic tool (no engravers had it in my city). The first information I got from this technology came from Steve Lindsay's web page. I contacted him and he kindly sold me a Chasing Airgraver. What a change!
Later on, as I joined the Knife embellishment forum, an american engraver that came to Barcelona for holidays contacted me just to change impressions about our work: he was Christian Decamillis. Having such a great engraver in my city, I couldn't avoid asking him "Where can I learn more?†and he kindly said “I can teach you, if you are able to go to the USâ€.
That’s how I ended up in January 2005 in Reno. There I could meet so many great engravers! I met personally Steve Lindsay, Bertil Aasland, Rick Eaton, Eric Gold, Brian Marshall, Johny Weyerts,… among many others. After the show I spent one month learning from Chris, with a Gravermax. That was the most intense and valuable learning experience I’ve ever had. I could also learn from the work of David Riccardo and Jason Marchiafava. I still share with David my enthusiasm for artistic engraving and printmaking.
Back to Spain again I started to get some work from a local armourer. I've also engraved jewelery for the past 4 years. I travelled around and could meet other great engravers like Sam Alfano, Lee Griffiths,… and attended the Grand Masters Weekend at Emporia in 2006, where I met many more great engravers there (I won’t say all the names for the list is long), as well as the kind people from GRS.
I’ve also studied an interesting introduction to stone setting at Magnus Jensen’s school in Sweden. And now, all my efforts consist in showing artists about the dignity and potential of hand engraved art.
And that’s enough for today… Words of thanks are mandatory to all of you who have encouraged me in this long way to engraving.
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