Author: Julie

This is a view from hiking in the hills outside of our friends’ ranch in Wyoming in the Gros Vent Wilderness. I long for those lush green hills right about now.

I have been on a quest to make my beadwork move in space, like a sculpture rather than a flat piece of weaving. Today I finished this cuff, which I name after the Animas River, near Durango in Colorado. I feel like this cuff can be re-interpreted in many ways and colors, and would like…

I have been experimenting with new forms for my jewelry. I’m completely inspired  by working in three dimensions- making more sculptural work than flat. I feel as though it takes bead work to a different plane- moving through space, like the Frank Gehry Guggenheim museum in Bilbao Spain. I’m incorporating wire into the beadwork to…

I am in preparation for an exciting event next month, involving Artfulhome. I will post details as we get closer to the beginning of March, but here are a few of the necklaces I have been making for this show.

No winter landscape today. Snow is falling and falling outside- cold, white and colorless. Need a bouquet of flowers.

I love quilts…mostly those that focus on color and simple patterns. Like Amish quilts with their mysterious and saturated colors, or the quits by African-American artists of Gee’s bend. It’s that play of color against color that moves me so. I have always created beaded cuffs that are inspired by quilts, but they were usually…

A third winter landscape of Wonderland Lake, where I live in Boulder.

After working many days on it, I just completed this new necklace. It’s all shades of warm silver and ivory in glass. It is a free form Herringbone and Peyote tube that has a dynamic kind of quality- hoping to create a kind of movement through space. More of a sculpture than just a neck…