I tested out some of the little flower beads a while ago, and was quite pleased with how they turned out. Today I made a necklace! Such a pretty little combination of flowers and colours.
Glass Flower Necklaces
Month: July 2018
Bead Stick Sculptures
Every now and then I like to do something a bit different from jewellery! This year I have made four bead stick sculptures for the various exhibitions that I am part of.
At The Adelaide Remakery I will have 2 sculptures made from a Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle. I forgot to photograph them before I delivered them, but I think they are really gorgeous! Very eye-catching.
The sculpture pictured below is one of two sculptures heading to Bethany Wines as part of my SALA festival exhibition there. This one was made from the various wine bottles that they use there, and I have stuck the sticks into a 2008 Reserve Shiraz. The other sculpture…well, you might just have to visit to see that one!
Splash of red
I thought I would try something a little bit different today. I was originally planning to put the red beads with some green beads, but then I thought…maybe try the blue beads! Glad I did, this bracelet is super sweet. Perfect with jeans and a red jumper (which I happen to be wearing today)!!
Glass Flower Garden
When I started planning my SALA exhibition at Bethany Wines I was thinking that all of the jewellery had to incorporate glass flowers, as that is what GlassBlumenGarten is – Glass Flower Garden.
But today I went to see the Impressionists at the Art Gallery of South Australia, and it made me realise that the jewellery didn’t have to be all glass flower beads. It could be other beads that look like flowers and gardens. I was so excited that I came home and put this little bracelet together with some of the test beads that I have made (and some others from my recycled glass bead collection).
I have to say…I was really glad I went to see the Impressionists today!!
New to the Gin and Tonic range
I made these earrings this morning, they will be part of the Adelaide Remakery SALA exhibition.
The earrings feature beads that I have made from a Hendricks Gin and Fever-Tree tonic water bottle. I am loving the little splash of red in these earrings!
Random glass objects
I love going to op shops to see what glass they have. I often find single coloured glasses and small bowls, and over the years I have built up a little collection of glass objects. For my exhibition at The Adelaide Remakery I selected 5 pieces that were different colours and made flower jewellery that look a bit like this:
Made from a broken window
Years ago I made some beads from a broken window, and I had kind of forgotten about that as a source of recycled glass until I was planning my work for The Adelaide Remakery.
I thought a broken window would suit the theme of the exhibition really well.
I tried some new techniques to make the beads for these pieces. The necklace is super interesting, with lots of movement and interesting colours.
Design
I thought about design a LOT while I was away. Often what I share with the world is a finished and polished product that is ready to purchase. What you don’t always get to see are the sketches, the prototypes, the changes of direction, the tweaking that goes on behind the scenes. Things that might turn an idea for a pair of earrings into a necklace, things that might mean it’s back to the drawing board, things that might mean I put the piece aside for a bit longer.
I made these beads before I went away and today I had a chance to think about the possibilities in all of them. Drawing board? Necklace? Put aside? You will have to wait and see!
Beads made from a Bethany Winery chardonnay bottle.
Back from holidays!
Hello! I’m back from holidays and getting ready for several SALA exhibitions. Here is the invitation for the exhibition at The Adelaide Remakery. It features 8 artists who work with materials traditionally destined for the bin!
I’ll be making all sorts of pieces for this exhibition and I’m really looking forward to working with window glass again. It has been a while and after my break I have some crazy new ideas to try out!
Hope to see you at the opening.
Colour Play – Cool Colours – Blue, Green and Purple
When I started looking at cool colours, I was always finding myself thinking about how nicely they went together. Then I started making the beads and thought – oh, these colours look really nice together! So, I made some extra beads and then made one final necklace in this series which combined all of the colours.
This is my final Colour Play post for a little while. I’m concentrating on getting ready for my SALA exhibitions now, and will share some photographs of work from those exhibitions soon.
