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Beverly McQuary-Coupeville, Washington Playing with Fire!
Glass bead-making involves melting colorful Italian soda-lime glass rods around a mandrel with a propane/oxygen torch and then embellishing them. The combination of color and techniques, while maintaining control of hot glass, is an exciting dance on an incredibly small palette that takes me out of myself and into the moment. The beads are kiln-annealed to remove stress in the glass.
Making the beads into wearable art is a completely different but exciting discipline. I use a variety of wire working techniques to incorporate the glass beads into jewelry. I work mostly with silver and ear-wires are always sterling silver. I also use copper, brass, crystals, pearls, and found objects to create my "baubles".
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