Chickadee Studios

Welcome...Chickadee Studios

Award winning artist, Denise Marie Houck, started Chickadee Studios in 1994 and has worked in the arts all her life in one form or another. Working with her daughter Valerie VanSandt, they create elegant jewelry from their studio in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

Here is what Houck says of her artistry: "As lamp workers, our goal is to not just create a beautiful bead BUT to create a beautiful bead that is a glass component of a total composition. In our work we use the elusive process of reduction, in silver, gold and bronze, to create patterns and textures on ivory and transparent deep pools of colored glass.

"We are working with two basic jewelry forms. The first combines the form, shape, color, pattern, texture and light of our hand made beads to create “Totems” of beads that stand upon each other. These 'Totems' create a visual rhythm and tempo. The second jewelry form combines those same elements, (form, shape, color, pattern, texture and light) to create movable, dancing bead sculptures. Both the “Totems” and bead sculptures are finished as wearable jewelry.

"In our jewelry we strive for 'visual perfect pitch'. The power to create beauty from plain materials is exhilarating."

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