I've been featured!

. . . in 'Beads and Beyond' jewellery magazine! 

It's the current March issue and you can find it in all good newsagents! ;)  I'm delighted and flattered that they approached me. It's a great quality magazine aimed at jewellery lovers and makers; choc full of info, images, demos and how-to's. It's a UK based publication, but is distributed all around the world. You can also find it online.

I've been very busy lately - making new jewellery designs, visiting bead fairs, buying new materials, designing a new website, planning a huge upcoming studio sale of my paintings, and visiting Dorset. Phew, what a month it's been! I'll be sharing more on all of these in the coming weeks.  

In the meantime, have a great weekend!

And, if you have a moment, please check out the new 'jewellery' section on my Website!

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Jewellery 'sneak peek' . . .

Here are a few 'sneak peek' pics of the mosaic jewellery that I am currently working on. In the mix here are some rings and lockets, with earrings and bracelets on the way.

Each mosaic that I make is an original, intricate work of art that is made over the course of about 2 or 3 days. There are quite a few stages involved in their making, as well as drying time in between. They are a real labor of love, but great fun to make! I also like to incorporate unusual materials into the design too, often using antique or vintage components from my collection of wonderful old, but now broken, jewellery. You can see parts of old brooches in the pieces above.

These designs are nearly completed now - they just need finishing, filing and tidying up. I hope to have them in my Etsy Jewellery Shop within the week. I'll post some photos of the finished pieces soon!

You can see a selection of my finished Mosaic Jewellery on my website.

You can also find some for sale in my Jewellery Shop.

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Art Up Close

Some interesting textures found on my canvas paintings . . .

 

 

 

 

 

  

These are macro shots of some of my paintings. 

I love exploring the surface detail of my art with a camera as you can find wonderful pictures within pictures and worlds within worlds. These really are very tiny areas of the original paintings. They contain amazing textures that the naked eye misses as they are just too small to focus on! 

I love to incorporate interesting and unusual textures within my paintings. I often add all sorts of mixed media and specialized art 'mediums' to achieve these, including sand, metal leaf and glue.

I am currently working on a project involving publishing a dvd and picture book based on my close-up shots of my art. It's a long term project and it's not going to be ready in a hurry - I've been working on it for almost 2 years already!

You can see more of my art on my Website.

And more of these painting texture shots on my Flickr Photostream.

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Seaweed

Yes, even seaweed can be beautiful and inspiring! . . .

Or is it just me?!
Well anyway, I so love these deep, dark, earthy and murky colours of the seaweed and dried flowers. Although the colours are quite dull, there are so many rich and varied tones to be found in there. 

I'm lucky enough to live in a beautiful part of Cornwall, and can find many wonderful things on my doorstop and under my feet. Yes, I can often be found with my face in the undergrowth and my arse in the air. Luckily for me that's quite normal around here these days, as most people carry cameras around with them, adopting all manner of odd stances in order to capture something or other. In fact, you can often find my partner hanging off a cliff edge in an effort to photograph seals.

If you would like to see more of my handmade jewellery, seaweed-inspired or otherwise, please visit my Online Jewellery Shop.

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