Book Launch Party at Atelier NONNE 11
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of our very first book Fire · Colour · Light - Of Enamelling and Becoming.
Celebrate with us on the 15th of August 2026 and come see the product of this special labour of love.
We’re looking forward to a summer evening spent amongst good company, books and conversation, and warmly invite you to celebrate this special book moment with us!
Buch-Launch im Atelier NONNE 11
Am 15. August 2026 feiern wir die Veröffentlichung von Feuer · Farbe · Licht – Vom Emaillieren und Werden mit einer Launch-Party im Atelier NONNE 11.
Zum ersten Mal wird das Buch an diesem Abend zum Durchblättern, Entdecken, und in Ruhe eintauchen vor Ort erlebbar sein.
Wir freuen uns auf einen Sommerabend zwischen Buch, Werkstatt und Begegnung, mit ersten Einblicken in die Publikation, Gesprächen, einem Glas in der Hand und Zeit zum Verweilen. Herzliche Einladung, diesen besonderen Moment – und zugleich den Auftakt unseres Verlags NONNE 11 dreiviertel – gemeinsam mit uns zu feiern!
Fire · Colour · Light- On Enamelling and Becoming is a book about engaging with the art of enamelling, about my work set between meticulous craftsmanship and creative intuition, about a mysterious inner source of creativity, Nature as a teacher, and the search for meaning through artmaking.
It will be released on the 15th of August 2026 and is available for pre-order now.
While the book is, on the surface, all about enamelling and my own perspective on this ancient craft technique, it is at its core about the interweaving of a creative practice, Nature and craftsmanship. This wonderful project is a collective effort, bilingual in German and English, with essays by guest contributors.
Ulrich Haass (former director of the Goldschiedeschule Pforzheim) opens the book with an introduction to enamel and my work. Prof. Dr. Andreas Huth (Otto Friedrich University Bamberg) wrote about encountering historical enamel as a visitor in a museum context, and on the different factors that contributed to the evolution of enamelling techniques through history. Dr. Sabine Wilp (President of the Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk/German Crafts Association) wrote about craftsmanship and its meaningmaking potential and relevance in our current age. Prof. Dr. Hubert Sowa (artist & art philospher; Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg) offers a more philisophical perspective on an embodied practice of artmaking and engaging with the natural world.
These contributions are complemented by my own musings about my work, more subjective and poetic than analytical, offering an insight into my creative practice, my thinking and my relationship with materials, Nature and time. Mostly, the book is a visual journey of carefully composed images, both of my process in the studio and of my finished pieces, painting a multi-layered picture of an art practice – situated somewhere between experience, reflection and sensory perception.
The book is not a manual and will not teach you the basics of enamelling, but rather offers a unique, subjective perspective on the topic.
Fire · Colour · Light – On Enamelling and Becoming is the first publication by our newly established imprint NONNE 11 dreiviertel Publishers. Alvaro-Luca Ellwart is responsible for the book’s concept, editorial design, typesetting and layout.
The making of a giant Pomegranate Creature in the studio; photograph by Dominik Schreiner.