Sculptural Jewelry
How do you work with polymer clay? Do you consider yourself primarily a maker of jewelry or do you prefer sculpture? Do you ever combine both. Janet Wilson does just this with her tree pendants.
One of the joys of jewelry art is that someone can wear and show around a little piece of their art collection. It is a piece of art not relegated to viewing by only those who visit the owner’s home or stop in the office it’s placed in. Creating a sculptural vision that can also be worn really takes advantage of this aspect of jewelry. And probably gets the wearer a lot of attention?
Have you ever used sculptural imagery in your work or created a scuplture that can be worn?
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What a lovely tree pendant and the colouring is beautiful. Much of my jewellery is sculptural, I also like’painting’ with clay and I am inspired by the natural world around me!
I use polymeric clay primarily for create jewelry, but there are very little sculpture that can be worn, so there are a mix of this two types of “art”.
My idea is that my sculptures have to seem like living being living on the body, mermaids, fairy, dragons. They are sculptured on a structure of wire or another support, there are grabbed on it and never look toward who is watching, but their face is hidden or looking for something in the space.
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I have loved her work for such a long time, it is nice to see your write up on a great artist !
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