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5260 Duncan Rd #1
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Product Name: Dianne Brooks - Jewelry |::| Model#: JGS45a

Product Information: Model#: JGS45a
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Dianne Brooks

Hand-crafted Art Jewelry

After 30 years in corporate information technology, I needed an outlet for newly-discovered artistic energy. In 1999, a friend invited me to visit a silver jewelry class in Port Charlotte. That did it-- I was hooked! Since then I have made over 1,000 pieces, many of which are now in private collections in Texas, Arkansas, Maryland, California, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. Many have earned ribbons in juried shows over the last 8 years at both the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda, Florida and at the Florida Society of Goldsmiths.

God’s art in a semi-precious stone provides the inspiration for my gold, silver and copper jewelry designs. Usually an interesting stone will “tell me what it wants to be” and guides the design. I love working the metals – sawing, hammering, soldering, polishing, coloring – to give the stone center stage. Each piece is one of my “children” and I give each one a name.

Initially, I purchased the stones I used, but the source rocks so intrigued me, I just had to unlock their mystery and so learned to cut and polish rough rock into cabochon stones for jewelry. A love of color and patterns led me to create fused dichroic glass cabochons (brilliant metallic glass often showing two different colors depending on viewing angle) and intarsia (geometrically constructed stones) as well as enamels. I also use beads, Kumihimo (Japanese braiding) and wire to make necklaces and bracelets that complement my fabricatedjewelry pieces.

Regular advanced workshops with Florida Society of Goldsmiths and at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts further my skill set. I love to share my knowledge and often learn from my students while teaching metalsmithing, enameling, cabochons and glass fusing at the Visual Arts Center and William Holland.

Memberships: Florida Society of Goldsmiths, Arts and Humanities Council, founding member of the Jewelry Arts Group at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda.

My work is for sale in Florida galleries. I hope you love my “children” too.

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Enamel: powdered glass kiln- fired on metal

Cloisonne enamel: This French term means "having cells". The cells are little walls of very thin wire which define the design and keep enamel colors separated. It is not unusual to have 20-50 separate enamel applications and firings in a single piece.

Champleve enamel: This French term means "raised field". Traditionally, a design is cut out of one piece of silver and soldered onto a silver backing. Other methods, such as casting, etching or molding can also produce a recessed design. In either method, the recesses are filled with enamel and kiln-fired.

Intarsia - The term traditionally referred to wood marquetry or inlay. Today, lapidarists (stone artists) use the term for stones with geometric or figure designs created by assembling many small pieces. I prefer the geometric designs with precision angles and thicknesses to the components to tolerances of .001". All the components must be the same hardness. And the harder the stone, the longer it takes to make a piece. Lab-created stone simulants all have the same hardness and an intarsia design takes about 4-8 days to complete. Intarsia from hard natural stones like jasper, agate or jade may take up to 3 weeks!

Silver

Sterling silver .925 is 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper and often other trace metals. The copper is what make sterling silver tarnish when it oxidizes. The copper gives sterling silver its durability.

Fine silver .999 is 99.9% silver with .1% other metals. Fine silver does not tarnish but it is not as strong as sterling.

Reticulated silver is silver which has been treated to develop a wrinkled texture. It is a long process in which the silver is heated, and soaked in acid to disolve any copper that is on the surface and then scrubbed to remove the copper, leaving only fine silver on the surface. The process is repeated at least 20 times until no more copper appears when heated. Finally heat is applied again causing the fine silver on the surface to wrinkle as it expands and contracts at different rate from the underlying sterling that still has copper in it. No two pieces are alike.

Kumihimo a Japanese braiding process using 8 or 16 strands of fiber or strings of beads. A necklace-length braid takes about 2 hours if only fiber and up to 8 hours if it uses all beads. I like finding fibers and beads to make braids that complement the colors in stones used in my pendants.
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