Competition Pieces
CONVERGENCE III:
Inspirations and Interpretations
sponsored by the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) and
Bead & Button Magazine
ART GLASS BEAD JEWELRY
INSPIRED BY OTHER WORKS OF ART
ARTISTS:
Margie Shanahan (created the glass lampworked beads)
Linda McIlheran (designed & hand stitched)
TITLE OF PIECE: "CAVORTING WITH KANDINSKY"
Juried Winner: Chosen internationally for a one year gallery exhibition tour throughout the USA and Japan 2011- 2012
This was inspired by the painting:
Color Study of Squares
by Vasilly Kandinsky (1866-1944)
The father of modern abstract paintings.
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF JEWELRY PIECE:
Vasilly Kandinsky's Color Study of Squares had long captured the imagination of Linda, who has used it as an inspiration in her own painting and other art forms and who introduced it to Margie for this project. They loved the play of vibrant color, deliberate asymmetrical shapes, and the challenge of creating a piece that pushed them outside their comfort zones. After Margie created glass lampworked disks that mimicked Kandinsky's round shapes, Linda then "painted" the background squares using bead embroidery techniques, paying special attention to enhancing the playfulness of each square with color variations, multi-textures and a variety of shapes in a nod to the free-wheeling happy tone that Kandinsky set with his suggestion of circles and squares that are not perfectly symmetical.
MATERIALS USED:
Effetre glass lampworked disk beads;
hand stitched glass seed beaded embroidery stitched on hand painted interfacing, backed with leather; hand forged wire and glass beaded toggle clasp
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CONVERGENCE II:
Adorning The Past, Present, And Pretend
sponsored by the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) and
Bead & Button Magazine
JEWELRY DESIGN WITH ART GLASS BEADS INSPIRED BY PERSONAS OF FACT AND FICTION
ARTISTS:
Margie Shanahan (created the glass lampworked beads)
Linda McIlheran (designed & hand stitched)
TITLE OF PIECE: "DREAMING OF TITANIA"
Juried Winner: Chosen internationally for a one year gallery exhibition tour throughout the USA and Japan 2010- 2011
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF JEWELRY PIECE:
Commissioned by order of King Oberon for Titania, queen of the fairies (Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) to reflect the joy and the hope of the forest in summer as well as their never-ending love.
MATERIALS USED:
Soft glass lampworked beads (large ones hollow);
everything is hand stitched: twigs; aventurine hand-cut flat teardrops and
pebbles; Czech glass; seed and fringe beads; Czech pressed flower, leaf and butterfly beads; Swarovski butterfly bead; beaded embroidery stitched on hand
felted wool, backed with leather; hidden hook and eye clasp
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CONVERGENCE II: sponsored by the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) and ARTISTS: TITLE OF PIECE: "UHURA'S CHARM" MATERIALS USED: Soft glass lampworked beads; vintage jet, Czech, Japanese, Swarovski crystal, faceted cats eye and other beads; sterling silver, brass, and colored wire and findings; purchased charm; strung with 49-strand cable stringing wire
Adorning The Past, Present, And Pretend
Bead & Button Magazine
JEWELRY DESIGN WITH ART GLASS BEADS INSPIRED BY PERSONAS OF FACT AND FICTION
Margie Shanahan (created the glass lampworked beads)
Linda McIlheran (designed & hand stitched)
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF JEWELRY PIECE:
Made for communications officer Lt. Nyota Uhura of the Starship Enterprise, the necklace symbolizes a trek through an asymmetrical galaxy of lampworked and other beads and wirework, finished with a hand-made clasp symbolic of an orbiting planet.
