The latest issue of Ornament is a feast of inspiration. We will spend the next few days exploring some of the artists featured in this issue…
Jim Cotter has been using non-traditional materials in his jewelry for years. I absolutely LOVE the featured item…a concrete ring set with diamonds. “Though Cotter regularly uses materials of obvious market value, he gets most excited about unexpected and commonplace materials. “There is beauty in just about everything if you learn how to look at it and see it and understand it.” Concrete, quarters, rocks, coat hanger wire, dirt, feathers, corn kernels, and rusted steel all make appearances in his creations. He blends humor, intelligence, rebellion, and a genuine appreciation for the intimate nature of jewelry to create a remarkable and fun body of work.”
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Felieke van der Leest combines textiles, beads, plastic, household items, gems, silver and 14k gold in her designs. ”Animals have a special place in Felieke van der Leest’s heart. She provides many animals with a busy social life as ornaments, gives a select group a nice home in museums and she placed a few oversized specimens in the center of everyone’s attention in meeting rooms and stairwells. Jewellery, object or light fixture, the scale or function is not the aspect that inspires Van der Leest: the telling of unusual stories is always her main motivation.”
Be sure to jump over to Google Images for more of Felieke’s delightful combinations. Love the name of the featured piece…Beaver Family from Pencil Creek.
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A photo of Kaz Robertson’s colorful resin bangles started my search for post material. “Interaction and versatility are two of the most important aspects of my work. I like the wearer to be able to play with my jewellery creating new pieces. Setting magnets within the resin provides a way of changing each piece easily. Ring tops can be swapped, bangles stick together, neckpieces interconnect.”
You will find more of her work on Google Images. Love the mismatched earrings on her blog page.
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Kelvin J Birk’s rings are full of mystery…how are the stones secured to the metal
??? “An accomplished metalsmith, Birk primarily renders “recycled” pieces from 18- and 22-karat gold, sterling silver, peridot, and rubies into ring designs with very innovative and unusual stone settings. Some settings are large, crown-like receptacles filled with a combination of crushed stones that resemble snow cone treats. Other designs are misshapen, and irregular like sculptures with suspended granules of gemstones that literally overlap the setting without crumbling.”
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The featured item from Donna Lewis is a classic shape…the complexity derives from the keum boo process which moves the pendant from interesting to ‘spectacular’. Donna is excited about the advent of the metal clays, enjoys working with all of the formulations and experimenting with the tools and ‘jools’ that work so well with this new medium.
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If you have ‘peeked’ at my other blog…WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON THIS WEEK…you will see my newest passion…etching metal. To see FABULOUS etched metal jewelry check out Gail Lannum’s etsy site and to see what inspires her…Gail’s Tales and Jewelry.
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Historically Inaccurate Decorative Arts takes the traditional French toile textile design and gives it a ‘bit of a tweak’. “RICHARD SAJA is always on the lookout for toile, but not to buy a few yards for a dressing room armchair. He looks at the fabric as the basis for his art. Mr. Saja, a 43-year-old textile designer, has been interfering with toile for years, embroidering fur on humans, wings on monkeys and bugs on flowers (like ladybugs, flies and cockroaches, though the last “is never a big seller”).”
I’ve been know to add a little fabric pizzazz to my jeans…HMMMMM….the next pair will DEFINITELY be ‘tweaked toile’.
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The latest issue of Ornament is a feast of inspiration. We will spend the next few days exploring some of the artists featured in this issue… 
