I have been creating beaded jewelry and fiber arts for over 35 years. This is a retrospective of work created during the time I lived in Juneau, Alaska (1991-2007) and since moving to the northern Oregon Coast in November 2007. These items are no longer available for sale.
This is my beloved “Dagger Lady”, my alter ego. She was created from a cast made of my face that was painted bronze, given glowing dichroic glass eyes and painstakingly beaded. She is wearing a necklace and earring set designed especially for her fierce nature, with stone dagger shaped beads paired with various other stone and glass beads and sterling silver. She was the centerpiece of an exhibit I did at Tempo Gallery in Astoria in 2012 called “Goddesses for Every Woman”.
These are a series of coil baskets I created while living in Juneau, Alaska. They began as part of a fiber arts exhibit at the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council Gallery in 2002 called “Fabulous Fibers and Beads” and continued from there. I became a big fan of novelty yarns and metallic threads and amassed almost enough yarn during that time to open my own yarn shop. I recently completed my first basket in over 16 years.
These pendants were part of a series shown at Tempo Gallery in Astoria, Oregon in 2010 called Chakra Stones. Each of the pieces represented the seven main chakras, energy centers of the body.
These jellyfish pendants are from a series called “Light of the Deep” that was shown at Tempo Gallery in Astoria in 2011.
These pieces are part of the last exhibit I did at the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council Gallery in May 2008 in collaboration with my friend Sandy Mander, who is a potter. We called the exhibit “Awakening Inner Beauty”. We were juried in for the show in early 2007, before I knew I would be leaving Juneau to move to Astoria, Oregon. I returned to Juneau for the opening of the show. The piece on the right is one by Sandy, with the beading done by me.