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Textured Mosaics

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And other new wall art pieces...

The ceramic tiles that make up this mosaic are all my handmade pieces. Added to this piece of eye candy art are stones, pearls, and iridescent glass. It measures 6 inches wide by 16 inches long. Click on the images to be able to see all the pieces. You can also see this piece full screen on facebook https://facebook.com/Geometals or put Geometals/Metro Decor in facebook`s search bar

This one is 14" x 14" and has over 300 pieces.

As you can see from all of the posts on this site, texture and rich colors are a constant theme of my work. Wanting to combine an array of textures, I`ve decided to do some wall art pieces. Here is the first of many called "Mosaic Magic". It measures 5 & 3/4" wide by 12" long. As always, for more information or for ordering, please send me an email to geometals@aol.com

Scroll down to see the textured ceramic switch plates (and cabinet pulls) that can be customized to your decor.

Click on the image to see more detail.

Say, what time is it?

This clock has an oak base with a black lacquer finish. The use of green and blue patinas over copper and brass really make the contrasts pop. Plus, the quartz movement keeps precise time. This design is called "All in good time"

"Time and Again" Patinas, shapes, textures, colors, and oh yeah - it`s a clock too!

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Fun and Colorful - Liz Hall Jewelry

Colorful jewelry created by Liz Hall

makes me think of fun every time I see it.

Her work is recognizable yet most of it

is one of a kind.

Creating her elaborate work with PMC

and embellishing it with stones, polymer clay,

glass, or whatever other found objects

may catch her eye, this artist

has a wonderful ability to translate her ideas

into delightful and intricate compositions

of ever-changing patterns and sequences.

It never gets dull.

There is a whole lot more to
see on her website.

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Exploring Vulnerability - Laura Bennett Jewelry

Living in tune with nature

and following the ebb and flow

of life, Laura Bennett

creates jewelry using found

objects from the botanical world.

In a manner of speaking, by crossing

plants with metal she's created a whole
new world of hybrids - jewelry that lives

as flora. Interestingly, she captures the

best characteristics of both elements and

manages to transform it all

into beautiful jewelry.

Her Dome Collection is simply beautiful,

and her Nature of Fragility Collection

includes sprigs of plants preserved with resin

captured just before they decay to

"offer the wearer an experience, challenging them

to confront their vulnerabilities . . . "

By capturing their essence without
ruining their beauty and fragility
this artist brings new appreciation to
the concepts of vulnerability and weakness.

There is alot more to see at
her website.

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Happy Halloween from Spiderman and Harry Potter

Happy Halloween from Spiderman and Harry Potter!

Be Safe!

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Exhibition - Mirror-Mirror

I admit I’d never heard of Suzy Solidor.

She died many years ago yet the memory

of her full and satisfying life has inspired a

jewelry exhibition lauding her drive and spirit.

Mirror-Mirror is currently showing at Velvet da Vinci

in San Francisco, California.

Originally on view last month in

Cagnes-sur Mer (near the French Riviera),

Mirror-Mirror is described as an exhibition

in homage to Suzy Solidor (1900-1983).

A singer, model, writer, actress and nightclub owner

Suzy Solidor was an iconic figure of the

Parisian nightlife during the thirties and forties.

Two of the many things for which she

was known included posing for some of the most

celebrated artists of the day (Pablo Picasso,

Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau and

Tamara de Lempicka), and collecting over

200 paintings done of herself.

Let's just say she had a very high opinion of herself.

This jewelry exhibit is described as,

Twenty-nine artists from fourteen countries have accepted our invitation to study - and creatively respond to - the life of Suzy Solidor. We believe that their propositions constitutes a tribute to her singular life, and that they are best read in dialogue with the paintings presented in the Castle. A distorted mirror of that collection of portraits, this collection of objects prolongs it (some of the jewels are portraits themselves) but 'exceeds' it as well. Indeed, the practices represented in Mirror Mirror (jewellery, object, installation) are not mimetic; their point is not to resemble the 'sitter', but to outfit her fictions of identity: "I am a pirate / a singer / a (wo)man eater / a brittany gal who fled her native Saint-Malo…the better to ply Parisians with nostalgic shanty songs." The conceit that this jewellery is for someone specific in turn allows the makers to pretend that it is someone's: their pieces at once designate and invent new Suzy fictions. What better medium indeed than jewellery to fuel her mild mythomania?

As a side note, I could not resist including

this 1932 photo of Suzy Solidor

wearing bracelets that were created

for her by Coco Chanel.

See more of the Mirror-Mirror exhibition
at Velvet da Vinci's website.

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Pencil Me In - Andrea Melissa Arias Jewelry

Andrea Melissa Arias takes a playful approach

to creating jewelry with pencils.

Whether it’s the colorful patterning of colored pencils laid

side by side or the texture of creamy resins seemingly

melted over the tops of pencil stubs, she takes

these ordinary elements and transforms them

into intriguing jewelry.

I especially like how she describes her process

and motivation,

“Jewelry is for me a way to discover new sensations and get in touch with another part of myself . . . It is a way to experiment, think, breathe, and create. . . Colouring pencils were my favourite toy as a child, giving me feelings of pleasure and excitement. My working process began by deconstructing the pencils in order to reconstruct them in totally different shapes and structures. . . The resulting new forms show clearly the marks of the present working process and reveal the memories of my childhood. This work represents my desire to preserve the spontaneous way children act.”