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Artist statement:
I celebrate nature by
creating jewellery from earth materials. Stones and shoreline
have always held my imagination, and I pleasure in wrapping them in
copper and sterling silver. This results in magical amulets of
gemstones, pendants, necklaces and earrings to adorn your body –
each a unique mini-sculpture.
Brief bio:
Studio:
This is my first year in the
studio; please help to make it successful by visiting my studio
in the barn at 6770 Old Hwy 2 (please see map). Besides my
jewellery, visitors will find garden art by Daylily Studio, handmade
boxes by Nick Hally of Maple Hollow Studio, leather-stained gourds
by Linda Jessop, pottery by Saidie’s Pottery, and paintings and
posters by Judith Versavel of Gallery on the Bay.
Open:
Saturdays and Sundays, 11am to 5 pm, or by chance or appointment
Visitors are invited to walk
through my perennial gardens.
Special Events 2010:
Prince Edward County WI Arts &
Crafts Sale – Thursday July 29, 9am to 8 pm
Tweed & Area Studio Tour –
October 2-3, 10am to 5 pm
Creativity Kingston – November
27 (10am-9pm) & 28 (10am-4pm)
Distinctions:
Expressions (juried show) 2009
and 2010 (John M. Parrott Art Gallery, Belleville)
Professional Development:
Kingston Lapidary & Mineral
Club (since 2009)
Loyalist College (2006 & 2007)
Haliburton School of the Arts
(Summer 2007, 2008, 2010)
Manitoulin Island (2005)
University of Windsor (sculpture, design, and photography courses
influence jewellery design)
Memberships:
Kingston Lapidary and Mineral
Club (http://www.mineralclub.ca/)
Quinte Arts Council (http://www.quinteartscouncil.org/)
Tweed & Area Studio Tour
Association (http://www.tweedstudiotour.org/)
Author:
Calla & Édourd,
a fiction, North Shore Series, Hidden Brook Press (http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/b-NShore.html
2009.
The Farm & City Cookbook,
essays on Canada's food system, recipes (Toronto: Second Story
Press, 1994. 292 pages), co-author.
Articles and poems published
in magazines, literary journals, and books including Grandmothers
Necklace (2009) and The Wisdom of Old Souls (2008).
Left to right:
Turquoise and sterling pendant, necklace from the Kenya collection,
and sterling silver, fire jade necklace
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