Jewelry Artists

Adina DeRoy-Stouffer is an artist and musician working and teaching in the Pittsburgh area for the past eighteen years. A jewelry artist Working in metals, glass, metal clay, gemstones, and recycled materials, Adina draws inspiration from nature for her creations: leaves, trees, landscapes, animals, and shells are among the themes that are woven throughout her creations. As a studio artist, Adina’s focus is often on creating works entirely out of wires in various sizes and metals. She uses these to create both jewelry and wire sculpture.                

www.bonnieheddendesigns.com                      

I have been producing my fine gold jewelry at my studio in Central Pennsylvania for thirty-seven years. I studied with Jan Frijters, a master goldsmith from the Netherlands, who was teaching at his institute in Huntingdon, PA. I enrolled in his school, and after a year as his apprentice, I started to create my own line of fine jewelry. Since then, I have taken classes in jewelry rendering (the exact scale reproduction of jewelry designs on paper), advanced stonesetting, jewelry casting and earned the gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America. http://cherylbrooks.com                    

                     

We have a large family of rescue cats that serve as our muses! We love creating one a kind unique pieces from the different medians we work with. Each piece tells a story! With our newest Pyrex/Corelle line, we love hearing the stories of shoppers & customers recalling the patterns and the memories they had with them! We also love hearing everyone’s cat stories as well!      

Miniature reproductions of my original watercolor paintings with sterling silver, pewter, titanium and copper to create my jewelry. Semi precious gemstones are used to coordinate with the colors in my art on some of the pieces. I like to play and experiment to keep my work fresh. http://www.LaurieLeonardDesigns.com                          

Flameworking glass is an intimate art: just the artist, the flame and the glass. I melt colored glass rods over a torch, winding and reforming the glass into thin discs, taking full artistic advantage of the glass’ chemistry, mixing opal and reactive colors, creating lusters, and layering with transparents. Using gravity and heat I strive for the perfection of form. My finished jewelry is bold, contemporary, and romantic. Each finished piece is put in the kiln while still hot to be annealed. This brings the entire piece up to the same temperature, and then when I am done working for the day, I ramp the kiln down to release all the stress I have introduced into the glass thru melting and reshaping it. When the cooled work is brought out of the kiln, I clean it and begin working on my design. The resulting flameworked glass disc-shaped beads are layered and suspended above each other with sterling wire. They are used to create a variety of jewelry pieces including necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. The seedbead framework I use is an integral part of the clasp, color, composition and design. I also make glass into other shapes: blowing round hollow spheres to decorate in the flame, glass vegetables and many floral forms.   www.rushcreekglass.com                  

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Even after 20 plus years of creating jewelry, I am in awe at how a bead a little larger than a poppy seed connected to the next one and the next one by just a thread births a triangle, a circle, a heart, a bracelet an earring…and those then become my contemporary beaded jewelry.                        

Olga creates her jewelry by crocheting, stitching, and weaving thousands of tiny glass beads together. Basic geometric shapes flow into organic forms, producing clean, elegant designs. The earth tone color palette and soft textures make her contemporary pieces versatile and comfortable to wear. Olga’s signature style derives from her use of bead crochet. This centuries-old technique allows for great creative freedom when combined with modern materials. A crochet hook, thread and beads is all that’s needed to create anything from simple ropes to nature inspired sculptural shapes. The resulting pieces exhibit a unique fiber-like quality. Originally from Bulgaria, a land with rich craft heritage, Olga has lived in the United States for the past twenty years. Her fascination with the art of beadwork was a natural expansion of her love of fiber arts. An exciting challenge for a self-taught artist, the new medium with its abundance of colors, shapes, and finishes opened new paths for artistic expression. The infinite possibilities and meditative quality of this ancient craft has kept Olga’s focus ever since. http://www.ombeadwork.com                  

Paula Nettleship the designer and creator of designs2c handcrafted jewelry, founded in 2006. She was born and raised in Ventura, California, but has called Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania home since 1992. With a needle, thread and beads she weaves original artisan jewelry. Her preferred stitch, right angle weave, allows her to construct jewelry that can be softly draped, like fabric, or geometric and structured. Influenced by the art history and costume design courses that she took as a history major at UC Santa Barbara, her style incorporates classic, vintage and modern elements. Her design is driven by color and texture. She often chooses bold colors and loves to mix them reflecting her Mexican American heritage. She designs with everyday people in mind. Marc Jacobs said it best. “The customer is the final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I’m not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.” In this spirit her jewelry is beautiful, functional, and ultimately wearable. www.designs2cpgh.com              

www.mysticalcrystaljewelry.com                      

I began my jewelry making journey in 2002. I am fortunate to be able to work at something I enjoy greatly that also brings so much joy to my fans! My work has evolved over the past 20 years as my skills grow and my fans continue to put trust in my craftsmanship. My mission is to share my gift of art by creating beautiful, timeless and wearable heirloom jewelry. I am drawn to botanical and airy designs. I use colored gemstones and pearls and work in Argentium sterling silver and high karat gold to create One of a Kind jewelry. I hand select all my gemstones to ensure quality, beauty and ethical sourcing. I add texture and form metal using various metalsmithing techniques to create functional and unique pieces. No two are alike. While that would make my work easier, I would not enjoy creating identical pieces and neither would my fans. As a self taught artist, I grew my skills through workshops and publications from experts in the field and much trial and perseverance at the jewelry bench. I’m passionate about my jewelry and guarantee my work to be excellently crafted and wearable for many years as future heirlooms. Background: I was born in Matanzas, Cuba. The communist regime drove my courageous and selfless parents away in 1971. As immigrants, we settled in the US “the land of opportunity”. I began my career in the corporate world. I graduated from USF, Tampa with a BA in Business Administration. I worked in various advertising/marketing/sales and customer services positions in corporate America. I worked with companies like Cox Newspaper, Colgate Palmolive , Eastman Kodak and AGL Resources where I put my college degree and Marketing MBA to use. These companies taught me a lot about customer service, product marketing and branding. During the COVID lockdown I earned Certificates in Colored Stones Essentials and Jewelry Essentials from the Gemological Institute of America. I live in the Cleveland area with my husband and have a son in college and daughter in high school. I enjoy daily walks with my doodle Lily, the outdoors and being near water. zenialisjewelry.com