Natalie Canfield, Jewelry Artist
Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm an inveterate "craftaholic".
Countless hobbies and experimentations have come and
gone over the years, many of which still lurk unfinished
in corners and closets. With this in mind, it is somewhat
remarkable to me that beads and jewelry have become
a mainstay in the creative side of my life. I am mostly
self-taught, learning techniques through books and
magazine articles. I started out by copying others'
designs and using paterns. Though I still look to other
works for inspiration and to see what's trendy, my
craft is drawing closer to what I consider art. My
preferred palette is an earthy one, tending to browns,
greens and purples. Nature is also a heavy influence,
and has drawn me to shells, bone and semi-precious
gems. And in the response to my never-ending quest
for something new to try , I have taken up the torch
to present my efforts with vitreous enamel heads. Many
thanks to friends and colleagues who have given me
encouragement, advice and opportunities in this endeavor,
and especially to my dear husband John, who just rolls
his eyes and does the laundry and cooking while I play
in beadland.
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Tim & Linda Caviness, Jewelry
Artists
Kingfisher Jewelry
Southwest art and colors inspired Linda and Tim Caviness to begin
designing and fabricating contemporary jewelry.
Tim apprenticed in Santa Fe, New Mexico for several months in 2000.
Linda began making necklaces in 2002 utilizing pendants and center-pieces
made by Tim. Encouraged by friends and future customers, they established
Kingfisher Jewelry.
This Century Gallery in Williamsburg was the choice
for Tim's first show in November, 2001. Linda and
Tim showed jointly in 2002 at Two in a Zoo Art & Antiques
in Williamsburg. They have participated in Stockley
Gardens Art Show in Norfolk and Williamsburg's Occasion
for the Arts. Their work has shown at Kinks, Quirks & Caffeine
Gallery in Williamsburg and at the Sanderling Inn
Resort in Duck, North Carolina. They have also shown
at Gallery 38 in Richmond and at The Hand Workshop
Art Center's Holiday Gift Gallery in Richmond.
Kingfisher Jewelry works in sterling silver and semi-precious stones
to produce pins, pendants, necklaces and bracelets. The pins and pendants
are fabricated with semi-precious stones using sterling silver and are
designed to enhance the color and matrix of the stones for one-of -a-kind
pieces. The bracelets use a sterling silver clasp with sterling silver beads
and semi-precious stones on a double black rope to give the customer a wide
range of selection in creating their own unique look. The necklaces are a
variety of semi-precious stones, glass, and resin beads from all over the
world combining various textures, colors and shapes to produce a new look
for the contemporary woman.
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Gail S. Eldred, Jewelry Artist
An award-winning jeweler, Gail has been interested
in gemstones since childhood explorations of the
Smithsonian's Gem & Mineral Exhibition in DC. While
partially self-taught, she has also taken classes
at The Wildacres Gem, Jewelry, and Mineral Workshop
and The William Holland School of Lapidary Arts, and
done a one-year internship with a local silversmith
(now deceased). She has also picked up tips from
experts at the local Gem & Mineral Society of the
Virginia Peninsula.
Her interests in making jewelry began with
beading necklaces, earrings and bracelets after a
skiing accident put her in a wheelchair for a year.
After she recovered she began to facet gemstones,
and make cabochons using lapidary equipment in her
home workshop in Yorktown. Silver settings are individually
made for each pendant or ring. For gemstones that
look better in gold, she can wire wrap these stones
or put them in commercially purchased gold settings.
Currently she enjoys creating intarsia pendants using
several different gemstones in various patterns.
Gail continues to make beaded jewelry as well as
one of a kind pendants and rings. She enjoys working
with the beautiful colors of natural gemstones
in combinations with crystal and pearls in creating
unique wearable art.
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Traute Leemann, Silk Artist
I create each piece as I go along, starting out with only a rough idea in mind and follow my intuition and the inspiration that comes from materials, colors, textures, the particular techniques used, the mood of the moment, and the evolving associations. Extensive trial and error with ever new methods provide me with the prerequisites and resources to achieve often surprising and novel results. There are clearly distinguishable types and classes of techniques and formal motifs in my work, but no two pieces are identical. Rather, each is a fresh, new invention.
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Lisa Mosser, Jewelry Artist
Mosser Studio - Handmade glass bead jewelry & gift items;
Wearable Art Glass
TCAG Exhibits:
A Potpouri of Art – August 2 - September 9,
2005
Guest Artisan – July
31 - September 7, 2007
Artist Statement:
Making lamp-worked glass beads combines my childhood
appreciation for glass miniatures with a lifelong love
of marbling, sparkling inclusions, patterns, and color.
Using a flame to take glass from rock hard to clay
malleable to honey soft brings me great joy as I work.
The ultimate challenge of shaping molten glass in a
1500 degree F torch flame fires my interest. As I remove
it from the kiln, I celebrate each bead as a gift that
offers its unique beauty and inspires ideas for my
next creation.
Artist Bio:
The beauty of light shining through art glass has always
captivated me. My favorite memories include marveling
at art, art glass, and stained glass windows in museums
and cathedrals throughout the U.S. and Europe. As
a kid I collected glass animals and was mesmerized
by glass blowing during our family's visit to Jamestown.
Torch work at the small studios in Venice wove its
magic in my heart.
As a teen, I joined the hippie craze for love beads,
beaded wire flowers, and craft loom-work. I started
exploring various art forms as stress relief from
the working world in 1992. But two dimensional work
in the traditional art mediums didn't spark the excitement
for me. Classes in jewelry fabrication and beadwork
introduced me to ways to use and wear my growing
bead collection. After 19 years, I left the corporate
world in 1998 and discovered the excitement of glass
bead-making in Kimberly Adams' class at John C. Campbell
Folk School. I have since learned new techniques
in classes with Kate Fowle Meleney, James Smircich,
Caitlin Hyde, Marilyn Jobe, Beth Metts, and Deanna
Griffin Dove.
Combining my hand crafted beads with seed beadwork,
Art Clay Silver, or kumihimo braids expands my palette
and gives new depth to the jewelry. My husband, Chuck,
pursued wood turning after his retirement and we
make collaborative pieces melding wood with glass.
One of my stone series beads was featured in lark Books
'1000 Glass Beads.' My glass bead sculpture won second
place in the 3D category at the Splash of Color show
at Gallery One-O- Seven in 2004. I am a charter member
of the Bead Society of Southeast Virginia and served
as Vice President in 2003 and 2004. I taught beadwork
and Art Clay Silver classes at Bead Haven, The D'
Art Center, The Rawls Museum, and Cristallo Gallery.
I participated in the Greater Lanexa Studio Tour
in October 2003 & 2004 (please check www.glst.org for
details of this year's artist studio tour). My solo
show at Charles Taylor Gallery in 2002 was as a result
of winning best in show at The Peninsula Glass Guild
show in 2001. You can see my work at Blue Skies Gallery,
Gallery on the York, The Gallery at York Hall, Portlock
Gallery, Miss D's Framery, Studio Foray, and Bay
School Cultural Arts Center.
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Virginia Nance, Jewelry Artist
Fused Dichroic Glass & Headwork Artist
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Virginia Nance is not new to artistic design, having
been a published needlework designer as "Ginny's
Stitchin's" for
over 15 years. Fifteen years ago she discovered the
wonderful world of glass beads and jewelry making.
Now retired from her profession as an educator, she
is enjoying the freedom to develop her creative spirit
through glass fusing and off loom bead weaving. While
she sometimes dips into her private collection of
beads by world class bead artists to use in her designs,
she prefers to concentrate on incorporating her own
fused dichroic glass cabochons into unique classic
one-of-a-kind jewelry. She is branching out now designing
framed wall pieces using fused glass, and to some
extent, even beadwork.
Virginia has just moved from Newport News to Fort Wayne,
Indiana, so is planning only to be in Virginia for
shows, gallery exhibits, and perhaps for teaching
assignments. She has been in demand as a fusing and
bead-weaving teacher in several bead stores in Virginia
and for bead societies in Virginia and North Carolina.
Her work can be seen also on her web site, www.beadsnglassbyginny.com.
While in Virginia, she was a participating
artist in Blue Skies Gallery in Hampton, VA for
ten years. Juried art shows include An Occasion
for the Arts, Williamsburg, V A (1999, 2002,2004),
and the Junior Woman's Club of Williamsburg, "Art
on the Square" (2000,
2003,2004,2005) where she received Honorable Mention
in the 3-D Art category, in 2000. Greenleaf Gallery,
Duck, NC, showed her work as part of their Glass
Invitational, May-June,2000. In addition to Blue
Skies Gallery, Ginny's work has been seen in Yates
House Gallery and Jerry's Gallery in Deltaville.
Other juried shows include the Virginia Beach Christmas
Market, Cricket on the Hearth (Virginia Beach).
the Virginia Beach Jr.
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