Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Pendant, with stone inlay...marble jade, amethyst, sugalite, lapis, zosite with ruby inclusions. plus two others.
Sterling silver pendant with amethyst drusy, amethyst, moonstone, citrine. 
Sterling silver cuff bracelet with turquiose.

Napkin rings

Although the picture isn't clear, these are napkin rings in sterling silver with copper horses, done for a horse breeder in Quebec. She told me that she could tell which breed each horse was! 

How My Garden Grows

This is about my gerden, which I love but get distracted by my work, so the flowers, reprsented by semi-precious stones, have weeds as well.  This is one of a three piece set.

Bottle pendant

This is a sterling silver pendant necklace, with a stopper of rutilated quartz.

Ginko Necklace

This is a sterling silver necklace featuring ginko leaves. I also make oak leaves, and cottonwood leaves. These are fairly long and dramatic and also have a "tail' down the back, which is removable, but helps balance the necklace.

The Times of My Life

This was a private commission withwatch faces from people special in my clients' life. It is watch faces, sterling silver, and moonstones.

The Mad Hatters' Tea Party

The Mad Hatters" Tea Party was a collaboration was glass bead artist Heather Trimlett from El Cajon, California and myself. The show with jewellery artists and glass bead artists was at Obsidian Gallery, in Arizona, and was written up in Ornament Magazine.
This necklace is made of glass, sterling silver, anodized aluminum,and other small things.

"What grows in this Garden?" or "Strange Flower"

This is the discovery found in a new garden in a new place. The flower turned out to be bindweed, and the snake benign


All at Sea


This painting and sculpture show together and apart. The painting is oil, and the sculpture is raised copper with prismacolour and gilding inside.  The small suitcase is copper, coloured also. The piece is about moving, and the limbo one is in between places.