Jan Smith is an artist working with vitreous enamel in combination with altered and textured metals. Jan's jewellery and metalwork employs traditional enamelling in combination with contemporary techniques; allowing for the exploration of imagery and mark making. Smith’s work has a tactile delicacy and the marks create a language or code, this is an invented language, a code that affords her a dialogue with the natural world. Born in Vancouver BC, Smith holds Canadian & American citizenship. Jan received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, NS; she studied metalsmithing and enamelling in the US.