Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg swept the table at the Rings & Things contest with her polymer clay “Three Tiger Lilies” necklace winning first place in the polymer clay category as well as the $1000 grand prize. Congrats to Lynne Ann!
It was heartening to see so many good entrants in this year’s contest including (some, I see now, are from prior years…thanks Kim):
Ann Inman’s Cedric and Bubba, Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg’s Good Things Come In Threes, Eugena Topina’s Wild Fire, Deborah Anderson’s Reversible Tile Bracelet, Sandra Cowan and Lori Bouchard’s Roses of One Garden, Ginnie Parrish’s Happy New Year Vessel, Judy Dunn’s Fall Floral Splash, Cheryl Moore’s Nile River Goddess, Christina Cassidy’s Trot On (pictured here), Judy Dunn’s Underwater Starfish Box. Thanks to Tommie Howell for the link.
Spring blooms have prompted a change in Jana Roberts Benzon’s polymer clay work.
She’s shifted her focus from canes to surfaces. Her crumpled brooch series has a luxurious fabric look and her new beads shaped from flat sheets have gone all organic.
I like to think she was working on a crane for Judy Dunn’s project and gave up in frustration only to discover a great new look. Perhaps she’ll let us in on how and why she was able to work in this new loose style. Thanks to Ronna Weltman for the link.
A chocolate and chantilly necklace may never have occurred to you but don’t these polymer clay strawberries look marvelous? They’re the work of Paris artist, Delphine Roche de Montgrand (aka La Fille du Consul) who was recently interviewed on CraftySynergy.
Her collection of wearable cherries, peas, and even radishes reminds you that spring is around the corner. Her chocolates are yummy. She started playing with polymer clay as a child and her works retain a look that integrates the child and the designer. Remember her bloody Halloween necklace?
Delphine’s work is in several online boutiques including Egg Mercantile.
Libby Mills’ new polymer clay works are just the thing to pick me up after a day of slogging through technical blog issues. The bright simple patterns combined with the texture and dimension of the metals somehow make her works friendly and appealing.
Real good for a day when I’m all out of tricks. Go see what Libby has up her sleeve. Here’ a link to her site (it wouldn’t work for me but maybe it’ll fix itself I spelled it wrong).
I’m digesting the ideas and information from the Synergy conference and may be rolling out new materials for weeks.
These new polymer clay earrings by Judy Kuskin were jaw-dropping (to use Ponsawan’s terms). By the time I got back to the gallery to buy some, she had sold out.
Don’t they remind you of the primitive ones by Philadelphia Perishables we looked at a few months back? There must be a tribal trend in the air.
Seeing Katherine Dewey’s work up close was stunning too. The detail and the power of this “Family Tree” piece was amazing.
The slides from my speech are available here. You may be able to glean some Synergy excitement and ideas just from following along.
At the Synergy conference I’m catching up with those polymer clay folks who fly under our internet radar and are hard to track - like Virginia’s Cindy Silas. She doesn’t have much of an online presence for her dynamite polymer clay/PMC work. It’s an impressive marriage of the two materials.
Clay pushed through open-work metal must be an idea whose time has come. The concept popped up on Susan Lomuto’s site and she’s experimented with it impressively as well.
My nagging about creating an online presence is paying off. Dan Cormier swears that the Cormier/Holmes site is nearly ready for prime time.
The set-up day was exhausting. Classes start early tomorrow. Need my beauty sleep.
Here are a couple of openwork polymer clay pieces by Maryland’s Keith Brown to tantalize you this Monday morning.
After looking at this for a while I’m still not sure how he constructs his works and I’m intrigued. You can see that Keith has mastered the technique if you look at his bowls and trays.
Light and shadow, positive and negative - a mystery to start your week. Thanks to Bettina Welker who pointed out the new additions.
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