Ellen Lyons is a Seattle-based artist who will current her fabricated silver and gold jewellery on the upcoming Fountain Pageant of Advantageous Arts & Crafts from Friday, Nov. 11, by Sunday, Nov. 13 in sales space D10.
“My ardour is creating jewellery. I concentrate on hand-fabricated items,” Lyons stated. “All of my metals and gems are fair-mined, honest traded and sustainably sourced. I’m bringing items created from a particular alloy named reticulated silver that I then design into unique and visually arresting items.”
All of Lyons’ jewellery is hand made and custom-made, designed and made within the stunning Pacific Northwest in Seattle, Wash.
Lyon makes use of a method that creates a one-of-a-kind texture, mimicking the great thing about mountain peaks and valleys and even some seaside and underwater patterns. Lyons has a particular line of items with 2,000-year-old Roman glass shards from Israel which might be paired with coloured gems.
“The shards date again to the time of the Roman empire,” she stated. “The glass shards are items of historical past that I rigorously protect in order that their iridescence lasts for millennia.”
Lyons heard of the Fountain Pageant of Advantageous Arts & Crafts from an area vendor who she met on the Sedona Fall Arts Pageant final yr. She inspired Lyons to use, and from Nov. 11-33, Lyons will likely be exhibiting off and promoting her particular assortment alongside the various different distributors attending the present.
Lyon’s started her work by help from one other pal, who inspired her to enrolled in a gemologist course on the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
“That one course hooked me perpetually,” Lyons stated. “I took a number of fabrication and design programs, then earned graduate diplomas in each diamonds and coloured stones from the GIA.”
Her present work is impressed by a love of languages, in depth world travels, historic relics and architectural particulars, akin to these discovered on a mosque from the ottoman empire.
“I look ahead to being in Arizona the place I hope to achieve new inspiration for upcoming designs,” Lyons provides. “Assembly enthusiastic clients and seeing the work of different artists is one other main drawing card for me. Arizona’s panorama and geography by no means stop to amaze me.”
Artwork Honest attendees can look ahead to assembly Ellen Lyons and seeing her one-of-a-kind metals, beautiful gems and historic parts on the Fountain Pageant of Advantageous Arts & Crafts. Go to ellenlyonsjewelry.com to see Lyons’ jewellery assortment. And for extra distinctive items of artwork throughout all mediums, you should definitely drop by the artwork honest subsequent month.
