Beaded Jewellry

While I was away I had lots of time on my hands and so made a number of beaded necklaces.  They will be for sale shortly via ETSY.  Double click images for a larger view.

Turquoise, bone, silver plated beads.

Agate, freshwater pearls and glass beads, six strands.

South American opal, glass beads, freshwater pearls.

Glass beads and bone.

South American opal, freshwater pearls, bamboo coral and glass beads.  Three strands.

Glass beads and agate.

Seed pods, bone, semi precious stone and wooden beads, 2 strands.

Turquoise, freshwater pearls, african metal beads.

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Flow past a diamond shaped object

This piece of work is based on what happens when a fluid flows past a diamond shaped obstruction.  It doesn't have a title yet.  It just feels like appropriate titles won't reveal themselves until all 21 of the flow series works are finished.

Silk habotai ground, silk thread and glass seed beads.

Running stitches provide directionality and movement.

Variegated threads increase the visual liveliness of the piece.

As with most of my work, solid areas are filled in with closely juxtaposed lines of stem stitch.  It is a time consuming way to fill a space, but it gives a wonderful fluidity to the work.

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The Day the Heavens Blazed

The work below is another in my Flow series.  It is titled "The Day the Heavens Blazed".  Curiously, it was only on finishing the work that I realised what I had created.  This work was created around the one year anniversary of the Kinglake bushfires that so devastated the community that I had only recently lived and worked in.  On completion I realised that I had recreated the burning red skies of that most terrible of days.

Habotai silk is dyed in a variety of reds glowing through the blue organza overlay.

Glass seed beads add texture and emphasise the depths of the folds.

French knots, stem stitch and running stitch in hand dyed silk.

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