I was honoured to be joined in conversation by my former professor, Pamela Ritchie, governor-general-award winning jewellery artist. Pamela is an artist‐jeweller based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She received her MFA from the ...
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EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. Spinel • August’s Birthstone I bet half of you will be surprised to read that there is a birthstone for August which you’ve never even heard of? It’s ...
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EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. How is jewellery made? Fabrication As explained in my last article about casting, some designs lend themselves to being created in wax and then being cast from molten ...
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EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. More info on my Materials and Sustainability page .> Let’s have a look at gold today – not the stock market version, but the good, hard, solid, wearable ...
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EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. How is jewellery made? Casting Have you ever wondered how jewellery is made? Almost any piece of precious metal jewellery comes to life by being either ’fabricated’ or ...
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I have just returned from a quick and exhausting trip to Las Vegas, where the world of jewellery just convened for several of North America’s biggest tradeshows. If you follow my blog, you will ...
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As I sit in my studio this morning, getting ready to finish some pieces to send out to galleries next week, I am contemplating where their journey will take them before they find a ...
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Ah! Some exciting news: I am proud to be featured in an editorial on Canadian Jewelry Designers influenced by nature, in nationally published Mercedes-Benz Magazine! In a wonderful tribute, writer Isa Tousignat, supported by photographer ...
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Did you know that even artists can gather in a nerdy, geeky kind of way? Almost a thousand ‘makers and educator in metal’ gathered for the recent annual gathering of the Society of North ...
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Oh my goodness, it’s been so long since I wrote. I had told you about three of the one-of-a-kind pieces I create for [email protected], but I have yet to tell you about the last ...
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I had such a very busy 2014 – that ‘year of the horse’ sure went at a gallop! So it was with great pleasure that 2015 greeted me with the opportunity to create some ...
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I love turkey! It’s been grand to eat it every day since our big dinner on Saturday. My daughters brought their best friends – it was a fabulous time! But now it’s back to ...
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I am terribly excited to head to West Vancouver once more, to show my work at the Art Market, as part of the beautiful Harmony Arts Festival. I attended this event two years ago, and ...
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