The gift of glass jewelry can be a gift to last a lifetime. It can say things to your special someone in a unique way that only a one-of-a-kind piece of art glass jewelry can. Visit Glass Expressions Art Glass Gallery today to see the many designs, shapes and colors of glass in jewelry. Below are just a few of the artists and their work represented at Glass Expressions.
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Flameworked Glass Bead Jewelry As far back as she can remember Cecilia Labora has always been fascinated by the beauty of beads and the opportunity that they offer for expressing creativity. |
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Daneen Augello’s love of art & color began with her first box of Crayola Crayons. Her vision continued to grow with her first camera at age 6. Photography became her childhood passion which followed her to college. In the winter of 2000, while pursuing her undergraduate Fine Art Art Photography degree, Daneen’s life changed when she stumbled onto glass. Acting on a friend’s referral, she applied for a job at a glass studio & seized the opportunity to learn a new art form. She began an apprenticeship which lasted over 2 years. Daneen learned both the classic & contemporary techniques of lampworking. She became fascinated with Borosilicate glass’s ability to magnify & distort shape & color, absorb & reflect light, & create seemingly vast depth & dimension within a very small space. Daneen realized these properties make glass an amazing medium for creating jewelry & began building a studio in NJ. It was then that daa glass was born. d.a.a. simply stands for Daneen Ann Augello. The unexpected pronunciation of day-uh is in honor of her Italian-American grandmother, Dea. Her colorful & quirky personality,unmatched beauty, & kind-hearted, loving nature inspire daa glass’s unique yet wearable designs. She had a beautiful inner glow that Daneen now recognizes in all women. Glass also emits an extraordinary glow when put in the flame. This radiance & warmth lives within each piece of daa glass. Characterized by lush color combinations & whimsical design, daa glass creates alluring & captivating jewelry for women of all ages. |
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Joyce RoesslerGlass as medum offers many interesting elements to work with, such as light, form and color. As an artist, Joyce finds its possibilities endless and exciting. She has been working with hot glass since 1978, and since 1992 has focused on bead making and jewelry design. Hot glass refers to glass worked in its molten state directly from the furnace. This off-hand blown glass is shaped and finished by mouth-blowing and working with hand tools. The techniques employed in off-hand glass blowing are very old and many originate in Murano Italy. That is where the name "latticiano" comes from, which describes the beads as having solid stripes of color in them. The beads are made by drawing a gather of hot glass across the studio, sometimes more than 30 feet long. This is very intense work and usually involves at least two people. The resulting glass tubes are than annealed to reduce stress and finally cut into slices of varying thickness with a diamond saw. A lapidary process, which takes up to two weeks, gives the beads their final shape and finish; either a matte, frosted surface, or a shiny gloss. In Roessler's jewelry line, she uses only her own beads, sterling silver or gold findings, and goldleaf to accentuate the glass. |
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Butterflies, bats, and beetles are just a few of the many miniature creatures depicted in the jewelry of Cynthia Chuang and Erh-Ping Tsai under the brand Jewelry 10. They are surprising, vibrant and colorful little characters, and each is handmade and hand painted. Made of porcelain, metal, wire, beads, and paint, each piece is recognizable as a particular life form, but there the similarity ends. The pieces could be reminiscent of a 1980s design style known as Memphis, a colorful, off-beat approach popularized by Ettore Sottsass as a way to shake up post-modern style and establish a fresh and stimulating approach to furniture and object design. Cynthia and Erh-Ping began making jewelry under the company name Jewelry 10 in the mid-1980s. They met while attending the National Taiwan Academy of Arts where both majored in crafts and ceramics. Then they came to America and studied at New York's Parsons School of Design, both graduating with a degree in sculpture in 1984. During their first year at Parsons, the couple married and after graduation they entered the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Besides sharing an interest in crafts, Cynthia and Erh-Ping share a common history and artistic background: Both were raise in small villages in southern Taiwan and both were influenced by the rich colors and exquisite design of Asian ceramics and Egyptian dynastic jewelry and beads. |
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It's their common love of nature, however, that now dominates their work. "We truly believe that nature is a common ground for every human being in the world," says Cynthia. "No matter who you are, you are able to appreciate the natural beauty of wildlife." Erh-Ping's family farmed, and their land was filled with the natural beauty of trees and plants. He loved being outdoors and observing nature, especially the life and habits of insects. The animal pins began when the couple's young nephew came for a visit. Playing with him and showing him their work helped them see things with a new perspective--the fresh approach of a child's point of view. Later, inspiration also came from small clay works made by their daughter Sue San. Cynthia credits Jewelry 10's success to its individuality. "It is important to find something that will make your work stand out from everyone else's. People have to be able to say, "Look at that! I know whose work that is,;" she says. "We have thrived these twenty years by being unique and different from every other jeweler, and that is what makes people remember us." Most recentlly they were featured in former Secretary of State and UN Ambassador Madelein Albright's Book "Read My Pins." |
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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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Kroma Dichroics...the Original Source |
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Kroma has been dancing this dance for 30 years. Murray Schwarts pioneered the transition of dichroics from scientific applications to... |
...a fine state of the art. Rupama is the original source and creator and designer of dichroic glass jewelry. |
They love their work, have kids - grandkids and live in the woods of Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| Penrose Design beads begin with a core glass tube of dense, opaque color, often white which gives the other colors "a lot of punch." For the vibrant colors draped over this core, the couple prefers the transparent glasses from West German manufacturers because of the clarity and "jewel-like" quality of the material. |
Penrose Design |
The intensity of
the color depends on the length and width of the bead as well as the size and
shape of the hole. The shape of the bead comes from blowing a hole through
the glass tube.
Elizabeth Cary and Rick Bernstein live in the Rhode Island town of Foster, where their business is located. |
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"Choose a gift of glass jewelry for your special someone!"
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Jane Barthelemy, Oregon jewelry designer and brand new glass artist, creates colorful necklaces, earrings, bracelets and pendants in contemporary, innovative, multi-layered glass designs. Jane infuses the finest of old-world craftsmanship with eclectic, energized and modern style. |
Marco Polo Designs
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Jane’s exclusive lamp beads are made entirely by hand over a single flame. Many of the beads have an internal layer of 24k gold or sterling silver, which adds luminosity to the transparent colors. Each color must be layered one at a time while keeping the molten glass at a constant temperature, or the bead will crack. |
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Jane creates her exciting, fashion-forward glass jewelry in an airy studio in Portland, Oregon, surrounded on all sides by 12-foot shelves of the finest quality beads and findings. Her favorite components include Murano glass, Bohemian glass, antique Japanese beads, handmade glass beads by USA bead designers and freshwater pearls. She uses superior American-made findings of sterling silver and gold vermeil. |
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