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Penny Gentle

Penny Gentle

Posted by Penny Gentle on 1/16/2006
Working in glass comes on the heels of a few other media I have been involved in over my lifetime. It seems to be the greatest and most rewarding challenge yet, to work with molten glass, metals, reactive glasses and frits. There is the hope here of creating something unusual, beautiful and desirable..and it is probably less than two inches in any direction! If only we could always be happy with just a tiny treasure to hold our attention and devotion.
My work has evolved over just a year and a half. I work many hours at a time four days weekly and often in the evenings, or I study whatever resources I can find. I usually create jewelry from my beads and only recently have been making beads that stand on their own merit...perhaps another creative person will complete their voyages for them!

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Amber and orchid
The orchid glass beads are stunning with amber glass. The Kalera shaped amber beads are heavily dotted with clear glass to make them absolutely sparkle in the light.
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Fairy Bells
These fairy bells, named by more than one person who saw them, are made with various types of glass. They are etched for softness. The necklace is fabricated with sparkly little beads and sterling silver beads.
450 x 337 px  (37 KB)
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Necklace in aquas and green
Green aventurine cane is laid into the aqua beads to give depth to their color. The accompanying beads add texture and richness to this necklace
300 x 225 px  (20 KB)
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aqua necklace
This detail of the aqua necklace shows the delicate winding of sparkly green aventurine cane in double strands through the pale aqua beads. The cane changed to color of the beads to a richer aqua.
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Fairy bells in ambers and blues
These are fall fairy bells, with rich transparent cobalt and teal rims. Some of the spacers are made from reduced lustre glass. The fairy bell necklaces capture everyone's attention!
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Stone heart hollow bead
Copper and silver leaf were cooked extra long to give a clear hollow bead the look of mossy stone. Then the bead was shaped into a heart, given a loop for hanging and pulled off its blowpipe.
300 x 225 px  (16 KB)
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pink roses
These sensuous roses are in Moretti glass with rubino ribbon laid on to the base of the bead. Green leaves and little white flowers float within it, and the roses look like they are about to dissolve in their pinkness.
640 x 480 px  (101 KB)
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golden heart
This is a hollow bead of clear glass coated with silver leaf and then a reactive frit called ocelot spots, which gives the heart a wonderful golden and silver sheen
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These focal beads have evolved from Gaffer canes, which can give a bead an ethereal feeling from within. Strands of colors float under the surface of the bead. I also used slices of the canes as murrini, melting them in and directing them to look like flowers, sea anenomes and feathery forms on the surface. These murrini often have a film of aventurine gold under them so that as the bead turns in the light it gives off unexpected sparkle.
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