The Clear Bead
Links, acknowledgements, artists and others I like
- Mary Abrams
has been supporting my movement on many levels now for quite some time,
and she was kind enough to let me take pictures of her beautiful neck for the necklaces.
- Stevi Belle is inspiration plus.
She has introduced me to many kinds of glass,
frits, powders and always encourages over the top exploration.
- Jeff Cannon is a dear friend,
an excellent artist, and managed to take a fine picture of me for this website,
in spite of my dread of having pictures taken.
- Many thanks to Ralfee Finn
for her friendship, her laughter, and her deep astrological insight.
- Kate Fowle was my first bead making
teacher. She inspired me to go home from that workshop with a torch. I'm particularly
grateful for her "middle of the mandrel" technique.
- Thanks to Susan Harper and Continuum,
I am able to sense ever more subtle levels of what goes on with me.
- Thanks to the International Society for Glass Beadmakers, and
particularly the "forum" on that website for all of its support to all bead makers!
- Doug Remschneider opened my
eyes to the magical world of Glass Alchemy color, and demonstrated in an important way how
much can be done with borosilicate glass--even with a minor torch.
- Thank you Nancy Tobey for your introduction
to borosilicate and for all of your gorgeous beads!
- Thanks to Jim
Smircich for my understanding of heat and gravity as it
applies to glass.
- Thanks to Marcia Keegan for her incredible eye.
- I thank you, Jon Littell, for your vision,
your intuition, your beautiful design sense and the pleasure it's been for me to work with you on this project.
- Thanks to Josh Orum for being able to take this
vision and find the way to let it live in cyberspace.
- Thanks to Taylor Jackson for
your consisent suppport and assistance on every level of my "computer world."
- Whitehouse-Books
has an amazing collection of books on all
aspects of glass.
- Have a look at the beautiful and mysterious paintings of
Sandy Lowder.