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My love affaire with metal started
when my father-in-law Manuel Santana (a fabulous artist painter and
sculptor and visionary www.manuelsantana.com
) gave me a couple of pieces of studio art jewelry by Lynn Guenther
(www.heartandsoulgallery.com)
for Christmas a few years ago. I was enchanted, mesmerized and
fascinated. Sometime later I visited Lynn at an Open Studio
event. She is a very inspiring, creative artist, and decided
to carve out some time in my schedule to take a class in basic metal
smithing and jewelry fabrication. That was it. I was hooked.
I have now taken some classes in metal smithing, casting and jewelry fabrication, with Dawn Nakanishi at Cabrillo College, and workshops in Mokume Gane with Robert Coogan, torch fire enamel with Deborah Lozier, and stone setting with Nancy Megan Corwin. I enjoy working with metal tremendously. I am fascinated by its properties, from molten to solid state. I like the way metal moves when you work it with a hammer and it intrigues me how final it feels when you put a file or a saw-frame to a sheet of silver, knowing that if you mess up...most things are fixable...it just takes A LOT of work. I plan to combine both glass and metal in my work in the future. |
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