Germany’s Cornelia Brockstedt was trained as a goldsmith and she’s run a design agency for 17 years. Her training is evident in her cleanly designed and impeccably finished polymer art like this new Winter Blues brooch.
Conny is fond of irregular and surprising shapes. She challenges herself with what seem impossible constructions like her entry in this year’s IPCA awards. Skinner-blended extruded strands wove through a central structure to create a complex geometric pendant.
She’ll be teaching her Wave minimalist 3-part bangle at a post-conference Synergy workshop. See the whole range of Conny’s experiments and discoveries on Flickr and Facebook.
Now isn't that the essence of fall? France's Valérie Bodino-Nazet situates a polymer shield shape of fall's oranges, golds, and blues next to winter's black and whites. She bisects the brooch with a flowing wire shape. I couldn't tell if Valerie had finished the construction when she took this photo…
Bonus points are awarded to polymer artists who make work that looks good with the PCDaily colors! Today's mixed media Phagocytosis from Annie Pennington is surely a winner. Annie's also Associate Editor at Art Jewelry magazine. Her brooch combines sterling silver, copper, polymer, handmade wool felt and colored pencil. The richness of…
This brooch is part of a new line from Spain's Natalia Garcia de Leaniz. It's slinky and wormy and makes you want to smile and run your fingers across the crenulated Skinner-blend surface. Can't you imagine bending the snakes into other shapes or making them into tube beads? Natalia and…
Conny Brockstedt ,
Cynthia, thank you so much for featuring my work here – what a nice surprise!