Thursday, April 13, 2017

Gallery Shows

 Amaterasus' Messenger was display at Blue Line Arts Gallery in Roseville, CA during the month of March.  The show was entitled
"To The Touch" and selected participants presented work that the viewer would want to touch and feel.  In this collar, I surrounded a beautiful and large blue agate with pheasant feathers.  Everything is stitched on metallic grey lambskin, glove quality leather....very luxurious!  The fringe really makes the collar quite luscious; it was a last minute decision to add the fringe.  The collar closure is a vintage brass button that looks great with the piece!

Amaterasu is a Japanese sun goddess who often used pheasants as her messengers, thus the name of this collar.  It was great fun creating a piece of jewelry for a gallery show and really pushed me out of my artistic routine!
This necklace was made for a "Black and White" show which ran through the month of February at the Pence Gallery in Davis, CA.  It was quite difficult to make this piece work.  In the beading world no two whites are alike and so it was a bit of a challenge to finds a group of whites that worked well together!  The necklace has a wonderful Art Deco feel to it.
The square cabochons are Onyx surrounded by longer frosty white bugle beads and and even longer black bugle beads.  The center piece is finished off with a spiral rope of Swarovski white opal bicone crystals and black glass beads.  the closure is a vintage black glass button that works well with the piece.

I am very pleased with the results!