Sunday, June 26, 2011

Milly

Katherine Bowman is by far one of my favourite jewellers. I have been following her blog for sometime, and now am lucky enough to work with her at CVHQ.






After going to school and learning the some of the 'right ways' of doing things with metal, it has been a challenging and self motivated time in the studio for the past three years.






Katherine is one of those jewellers who uses metal in a way that inspires you to look at form, shape and composition in a different way- the way you might cut, colour, or finish metal pieces, or develop something in wax.






Here are some examples of her work:






I couldn't find all the details for this beautiful pendant, but had to include it






18ct yellow gold, natural Ceylon Sapphire and natural Tsavorite Garnets










Sterling silver set with Ceylon Sapphires; ruby, yellow and orange sapphires and chrome tourmaline's





detail below












In addition to being an amazing jeweller and artist Katherine also has a dog called


Milly



Getting ready for a walk




Look at those cute little paws!





Maybe I find it refreshing too, as all the other ladies at work seem to be cat people; I have always identified as a dog person.

http://www.katherinebowman.com.au/

http://katherinebowman.blogspot.com/
















500+ Rings



I am almost done with posting about the new books in my life;

just one very important one to go




Nicolas Estrandas New Rings 500+ from around the World


Could you get a more exciting book? well, maybe but

It is so inspiring, and made me want to run to the studio immediately and start making all the dream rings that have been bumbling in my head for years; and wish I could afford to work in gold.

It also has a great index at the back so you can track people down and see more work via websites and blogs, and what country makers come from.

The Australian jewellery sense is very lucky to be represented by


Bronwynn Lusted



Djurdjica Kesic



Julia de Ville



Mel Miller



Natalia Milosz-Piekarska



Sean O'Connell



Sim Luttin












New Inspiration



Cutting Edges

Contemporary collage




I saw this book a couple of months ago when wandering a bookshop in St.Kilda



And I haven't been able to forget about it




Then I saw it in the window of a bookshop near work




But it was gone when I went back



So I climbed the stairs to
the wonderful



Metropolis Bookshop and found it

http://www.metropolisbookshop.com.au


And we will never be parted again





Olga Bennett- photographer

Olga Bennetts photography

and this lovely book caught my eye when it came into my work email- pre-publishing.

Environments


I am now lucky to have a copy, that I bought through her web-site.


and she has a lovely blog worth checking into



Olga has captured work spaces of many crafts people we stock at work,

and are familiar with from around Melbourne.


Her photography illuminates these work spaces into areas calm of creativity

which is nice, considering how crazy studios can feel at times.


The book includes:

Luci Everett

Elli Mucke

Belinda Kennedy

Marc Martin

Miso & GhostPatrol

Justin Lee Williams

Penny-Elizabeth Neil

Elizabeth Yong

Suzy Tuzen

Amber Wallis

Kim Kneipp





Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Delicate beauty

A beautifully beaded fragment

Tiny little stitches, I wonder what the whole piece looked like?


Seed beads...







Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New Work

Gilding metal and sterling silver earrings
Available from Craft Victoria


Gilding metal and sterling silver necklace

Large gilding metal and sterling silver necklace with sterling chenier and wire detail on silk


Large gilding metal and sterling silver neckalce with some oxidised pieces on silk
Hopefully it won't be too long before some of these necklaces can also be available at Craft Vic also...