Month: January 2018

I’m enjoying layering and recycling and building a surface with hand drawn, hand painted and printed elements. I’m also drawing directly on the wood panel. After I feel the process is complete, I varnish the piece. I would like this to go in the less “greeting card” direction and more in the direction of innovative…

Queen Anne’s Lace and English garden tones.

Just finished this new sculptural, “Alluvium Cuff.” It combines wire wrapping, oxidized silver and gemstones (Fluorite, Smoky Quartz, Labradorite) with free-form peyote stitch bead weaving.  It’s 6 1/2″ around and 1 3/4″ high, and is light and stays closed on its own. I love the organic play of the stones, beadwork and wrapping in this…

The carmine red has changed to a pink and the layers of petals are showing more clearly as they open up.

Needing fresh, water-color and flowers.

In 2017, I created this necklace. As will happen in the design process, I made it, looked at it, revamped it, assembled it and felt it was finished. But after a few months, I reassembled it into this new configuration. Though it doesn’t feel nearly as sculptural and almost has an ethnic feeling now, it’s…

Here is a long (56″) beaded bead necklace that can be worn once, twice or three times around- complementing any simple dress or blouse.  In the past I have made this necklace with little nuggets of pyrite (you can see it at my shop) but felt like trying a different kind of spacer this time….