Jewelry Designers

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Featured Artist: Hayden Reilly

Hayden Reilly

What vocation gives us pleasure? What's worth mastering? And our time when we're free to study?

Hayden grew up in Baton Rouge, LA , in her mother's studio – a pleasure pen for any child  – piles of artists' chalks, pencils, paper, tacky glue, ribbons, knives, and wire plus the space and time. Long sunny southern afternoons experimenting and learning with a child's focus: color, form and texture.

For an artist who is also a Mom, is there a better Nanny?

Hayden received her BA/ Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in the Spring of 2010. There she experienced a total immersion in the fine arts and art history.

Playful Color

Fragments of colored lace.

She is most appreciative for her Professors who rigorously drove her, to welcome the marathon work loads, to dig deeper every time for the “nucleus of form”. They taught “Never take a forward step for granted”.  She experienced revelations at an auto-shutter speed intensity. Can we still live our adult lives by these lessons? Enduring patience, failure and frustration, then going back to work again, to gain skill, and to make something worthwhile. 

“Everything happened in the studio.” says Hayden.

 And so, what about the lace? 

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Featured Artist: Heather Guidero

Heather Guidero

While in her teens Heather happened upon a silversmithing class in her community center where her beautiful career began.  Born and raised in Indiana, her ancestry was sprinkled with artists and entrepreneurs. 

She is a graduate of the Jewelry/Metals program at the Rhode Island School of Design.   In the fall of 2001 she moved to New York and sharpened her exacting technique at the famed goldsmith's shop, Reinstein Ross.  There she performed dare devil acts of gold soldering on an impossible scale and built massive, teetering cocktail rings from the ground up.  If you could meet Heather she is cool and calm like a summer day is long, I picture her holding absolutely steady to the pressure of time, money and materials of her former work place while turning out brilliant jewelry. 

Heather's Bench

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Line Vautrin – A Sculpted Life

"As you follow the thread of hindrance, you weave the weft of life"

— Line Vautrin

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A Sculpted Life
I’m in love with the Poetess of Metal, Line Vautrin.  Style that cuts through the clutter of images we all swim in is much admired and difficult to maintain.  Yet, Vautrin did.  She utilized gilt bronze, together with other noble and inventive materials to create distinctive jewelry and objects that still look fresh today. 

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