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| Line, form, volume...then there’s color, my favorite. For years I would combine strands of colored wool and weave images from nature into tapestries. Then I began to combine fine grains of colored glass, kiln- fired onto silver, to create cloisonne enamels. Rods of colored glass are heated in a torch flame and wound around steel mandrels to create miniature abstracts called beads. Gemstone beads of different shapes and colors are arranged to create rhythm and contrast, to accent the beads or pendants I make. ... and texture ties it all together. My jewelry is not about hard-edged, high polished, modern. My inspiration is still the forest and gardens, rocks and sky. |
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