Transparency Cuff Bracelet
Made in 2005, here's a cuff bracelet from my ‘transparency' series, one of several pieces I made for an ‘artist-of-the-month spotlight' in a fine craft gallery in Vancouver that same year. At the time I was really into Josef Alber’s book Interaction of Colour and his influence in the overlapping colour is apparent. But so much of what defined the design aesthetic of this series had nothing to do with Albers and more to do with life living on Canada’s rugged West Coast. These other influences were much more present and much more personal: the muted natural palette, the pentaradial geometry inspired by sand dollars and sea urchins, the loose organic shapes inspired by the beach pebbles found only a stone's throw (ahem) from our house, and the use of polymer ‘grains’ inspired by Tracy's innovative imitative pebble techniques that were also very prevalent in our studio during that time. I miss that coastal landscape.
Many of the techniques used in this bracelet are now a part of my Five Star Beads workshop. If you want to see some companion pieces from this series, you can find them on flickr, starting here:
Transparency Cuff Bracelet
Made in 2005, here's a cuff bracelet from my ‘transparency' series, one of several pieces I made for an ‘artist-of-the-month spotlight' in a fine craft gallery in Vancouver that same year. At the time I was really into Josef Alber’s book Interaction of Colour and his influence in the overlapping colour is apparent. But so much of what defined the design aesthetic of this series had nothing to do with Albers and more to do with life living on Canada’s rugged West Coast. These other influences were much more present and much more personal: the muted natural palette, the pentaradial geometry inspired by sand dollars and sea urchins, the loose organic shapes inspired by the beach pebbles found only a stone's throw (ahem) from our house, and the use of polymer ‘grains’ inspired by Tracy's innovative imitative pebble techniques that were also very prevalent in our studio during that time. I miss that coastal landscape.
Many of the techniques used in this bracelet are now a part of my Five Star Beads workshop. If you want to see some companion pieces from this series, you can find them on flickr, starting here: