Other Artists' Beads

Some of which I even get to own.

When I created this page, I was a lot more active in swaps. I still love trading beads, but I'm just not very organized—even about participating, let alone running bead swaps. And since then, I've had the opportunity to photograph some wonderful things, either because the artists wanted jury slides or records of their work, or sometimes simply because I wanted a record of their work.

I've felt very honored to have the opportunity to share these with you.

Joy Munshower and Maria Richmond's beautiful work, combined. 18sep2022

double (or triple) green and red gift 20jan2021

2 pairs of spot and streak xmas earrings 08jan2021

Fridayfugly horseheads. On Monday. 16apr2020

2004 floral exchange makes up a bracelet...sort of 01apr2020

Glassact's 2003 blue, gold and white holiday bead exchange bracelet 11dec2020

guild xmas bracelet redux 10dec2020

St Patrick's day charm bracelet with parrots. 17mar2020

Black barreled mouse made with another artist's bead 05may2019

Hook, Line & Sinker: glassact takes a class with Maria Richmond 03oct2018

Phoenix Pendant, a project in Maria Richmond's wirewrapping class. 01oct2018

8/0 french beaded flower in blues 30may2018

Jeannie Galt's delightful raked dot beads, 3rd in a series about 3 blue focals I traded or used. 09may2018

Marlene Minhas' elegant grey bead 08may2018

Jeannie Galt's black & ivory raked dot choker with matching button & macrame closure.

super long aquatic dead mouse featuring nautilus shell bead 20apr2018

dichro focal dead mouse 07nov2019

2016 fuchsia beadcurtain strand with gold-fuming 23nov2017

Eileen Miotke requested her synergy pix from 2012. 06nov2017

green and pink bead curtain strand featuring Peggy Prielozny's beads. 20sep2017

Donald Schneider, RIP. 16mar2016

bead curtain strand in romantic colours. 15mar2016

images for cindi b, cyndy g & annie s, hands of the maker entries. Private

collects together all the posts about 2013 heart bead challenge. 11feb2016

more 2013 heart shaped beads... 10feb2016

mini-beadcurtain strand has a somewhat insectile appearance. 28jan2016

First in a series of 5 `mini' 18inch bead curtain strands 25jan2016

Back to traditional techniques: shooting Lisa St Martin beads with opaque cores. 19nov2015

Lisa's spiral shell textured bead. 18nov2015

My Lisa St Martin Beads:) 20nov2015

I shoot two artist's work regularly: my own, and Kristin Perkins'. While both of us use opaque accents in our beads, we tend to emphasize transparency. Kristin adds another layer of complication (from the photographer's point of view) with the highly polished silver in which she sets her beads: ...

The high key, highly transmissive lighting doesn't work for Lisa St Martin's work.

Ever so slowly I am becoming more comfortable shooting with flash. Oh, and Cindi B's beads feature some very nice scrolling. 11mar2016

heart shaped fuglies, courtesy of frances 'n' me:)

fran's boro pendants. Not intended to be a public page

Frances' Jan 2014 CiM focal. 12mar2014

Stevi Belle's beautiful vessel is the inspiration for the Evil Queen/Commando Jan 2014 CiM focal challenge. 20nov2023

Cindi B's denim-y blue floral bracelet, with micro-macrame 28may2013

2013 valentine heart bead exchange. 09feb2016

Ona Sostakas was a talented beadmaker whose life was all too short.

mauve, pink and blue plant hanger for a friend. Also in a garden shot 01jun2013

Cindi B makes some sweet black and red hearts. 19feb2013

Frances Ross makes some sweet black&white raked beads

A simple and beautifully made bead by Susan Matych-Hager. 05mar2012

Ona Sostakas' wonderful Wizard Rings. 12oct2010

``New'' for 2010, Kristin Perkins starts experimenting with more naturalistic form. 18feb2020

Sheila Morley demos murrina application! 09jun2010

Make a match neck for J! (finally completed 25nov13) 26mar2014

blue example of our guild's round robin bracelet. 28sep2023

Anita promised me this gorgeous floral in trade if it didn't sell at the spring09 boner—and lucky me, it didn't. Originally posted 29apr09. 29apr2009

One of the Friday night icebreakers at the 2009 glassact retreat was to make this beadsoup necklace . Originally posted 04apr09. 08apr2009

Winter wonders trade with rita stucke . Originally posted 09nov08. 10nov2008

Ona Sostakas traded 4 of these wonderful gravity swirl beads at the 2008 winter wonders show. Originally posted 2nov08. 02nov2008

This is the second time I've featured Nita Van Til, who notes that a rock I found on the beach inspired me to make `rock' beads. . Originally posted 18oct08. 18oct2008

This 2007 xmas prezzie was from GlassAct's annual secret santa trade . Originally posted 04jun08. 04jun2008

Rita Stucke has recently developed this wonderful series that contrasts the precision of molds with the organic quality of freely applied shards. This latest variation of using all clear colors into the mix to show off transparency of glass for a real winner. Originally posted 25feb07 02mar2007

Chinese carved beads. Originally posted 14oct06. I cannot name the artisans, unfortunately, but they're beautiful and obviously hand made nonetheless. 13oct2006

Kristin Perkins , silver smith and glass beader, makes a retro line with clean line and clear colors. file created & added 25jun06 25jun2006

Joy Cichewicz' award winning bead pen 25jun2006

This used to be the swap page, but now indexes various other artists' beautiful beads, whether I've actually traded for them. 25jun2006

I have several really lovely trades from Gathering this year, but so far, Kim Fields' are the only ones I've managed to document , and my photography is less than stellar. But her work is so beautiful, I figure, better imperfect than never....file added 9sep05 09sep2005

Some old beads in an early style . file originally created 3jun05; my beads photographed dec 03; posted 07jun05 07jun2005

Trades from Gathering 2004, in Portland OR, including the mystery bead—if this is your bead, please let me know, so I can credit you! (posted 03mar05) 03mar2005

My local Guild's annual single bead exchange . December 2002 22may2004

One of the easiest way to obtain wonderful beads is by trading for them. These five beads were the ones I received in Laura Brito's `Big Bead exchange'. I hope every one who received my beads is enjoying them just as much. Perhaps the biggest difference between these beads and the ones I typical...

New designs incorporating patterned dichro and the hollow technique. 22may2004

These beads are by Peggy Prielozny, my First Teacher. As of mid-2005 she's back to making beads with a vengeance. Go Peggy! 22may2004

Signature Designs 22may2004

Fun for the Photographer. 22may2004

I had several goals in making these beads. One was to meet the parameters of the exchange, which specified pastel florals in a bracelet sized bead. As exchange co-ordinator, I suggested yellow and violet for those wanting a more specific color range, just because so many early spring flowers are ...