43rd Breckenridge Gathering at the Great Divide Participating Artists
Ceramics
Anastasia Bliss
I individually wheel-throw and hand-carve each piece.I then fire and glaze each piece, and wipe away excess glaze, using a sgraffito-like technique,leaving the beautiful clay-body partially exposed.
Sumati Colpitts
Slab and hand built techniques are used with stoneware clays, textures, glazes and oxide washes.
John Carroll
Hand built ceramic vessels, platters and sculptures. Developed a signature ash glaze that I use on all pieces; accented with commercial glazes.
Colleen Everett
Each porcelain originates without a pre-conceived idea. Surface texture is the foundation for its development. As the work develops, I search for the image to emerge and make itself known…
Michael Bonds
Processes include functional and alternative firing raku techniques producing "one of a kind" ceramic art. Functional ware includes both an earth palette & bright colored sgraffito mountain designs.
Frank Nemick
Large Raku and stoneware vessels of my own making and glazing. I do Naked Raku, Horsehair Raku, & Stoneware firings at my studio in the Wet Mountains of Southern Colorado. Also medium and small pots.
Daniel Marshall
My work is hand-thrown and hand-built porcelain. Each piece is custom glazed and high-fired in a gas kiln.
Jack Charney
Hand formed polychromatic functional and nonfunctional ceramic work produced using a series of slumped and humped forms manipulated assembled and multifired for the desired effect and density
Digital Art
Lauri Dunn
http://www.laurirosephotography.com
2D and 3D mandalas created from manipulated photographs of butterfly wings, coated with epoxy resin.
Blair Hamill
Posters are designed from my plein air (oil) and graphite/marker studies designed in the Federal Arts Project tradition, then redrawn as digital art. Output from computer are digital prints/giclees.
Cate Curtis
These images were created in Adobe Illustrator to express and represent the emotion of a past place, time, or event through the interplay of patterns, shapes, lines, and colors.
Drawing/ Printmaking
Barbara Marcus-McKenna
With spirited expression, pigment is painted on a plate, using tools of brush and brayer. Using my etching press, the image transfers to paper one time, to become an original Hand-pulled Monotype.
Leon Loughridge
http://www.breckenridgegallery.com
Original printmaking woodcut prints. Leon is also featured at Breckenridge Gallery on Main Street
Bill Yankee
I work in pastels on sanded archival paper. Primarily landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West. I look for design qualities such as light, color, shape, and texture that are inherent in the landscape.
Fiber
Barbara Holloway
http://www.barbaraholloway.com
I hand weave my fabrics on 8-harness foot-powered floor looms with micro and plant fiber yarns. I warp the looms, weave the fabrics, wash, dry, steam press, cut, sew and hand-embellish each piece.
Anita Baptiste
Fiber mixture from animal skin & bird feathers. Final details consist of other animal skins & beads.
Dinah Lee
http://gowacambria.com,dinahlee.com
Chris & Dinah sketch out designs on paper,cut their own patterns.We hand paint, air-brush or digital print our fabrics.
Silks, cottons and rayon fibers. Shawls,Scarfs,Capes, Jackets,dresses and tops.
Jo Nelson
Asian assemblage, composition fiber embellished w/recycled Asian antiques presented as a painting.
Sherry Kromka
http://Etsy.com-handwovens by sherry k
I weave high quality yarns, including chenille and bamboo, on a floor loom, creating unique designs with bold, exciting colors. I weave ponchos, wraps, shawls and ruanas, which I call "wearable art."
Glass
Steve Knox
Stained glass windows ranging in size and shape from 14" circles to free standing pieces over 6 ft .I use organic shapes and materials(shells, fossils,agates) to amplify the narrative of the glass.
Scott Hartley
http://www.infinityartglass.com
Hand-sculpted molten glass manipulated using Venetian techniques, brute strength & scientific precision to create fine art glass sculptures. Each individual piece is perfectly balanced & intertwined.
Gregory Tomb
I use traditional Swedish & Italian glassblowing techniques, a diversity of cold working & carving techniques, hot glass casting and acid etching to make my glass work.
Terry & Randy Romanin
A stained glass mosaic technique, all hand cut, grouted in and trimmed in copper. Occasional use of sliced agate geode and other found objects. No patterns used, each piece is one of a kind.
Andrew Noga
Hand blown and hot sculpted glass sculpture created freehand without the use of molds. I strive to make every piece a one of a kind so that no two are alike.
Jewelry
Janet Alexander
I hand-fabricate my jewelry pieces using silver and gold. I use metalsmithing techniques; rolling mill for texture, sawing,soldering,and hammering to create unique one-of-a-kind work of wearable art.
Michelene Berkey
http://tigressdesignstudio.com
Sterling & high karat gold jewelry with elements of cast Bristlecone Pine and Cottonwood twigs. Roller printed, forged, oxidized & fabricated with unusual gemstones and Freshwater pearls
Betsy Bracken
Gemcutting is my forte, in my colorful inlaid gemstone jewelry. The metalwork that frames each piece, is either cast from my original waxes, or fabricated from sheet and wires in gold and silver.
Danny Bushart
Inspired by the romantic Art Nouveau era, I create my work by sculpting wax with dental tools in 14kt gold, sterling silver and faceted gemstones using the lost wax method.
Lucine Dirtadian
http://www.LucineUrsulaJewelry.com
Fine quality gems & pearls set in Gold/Silver. Collaboratively designed,individually hand-made, one of a kind jewelry pieces. Fabricated, plannished, cast with various stone setting techniques.
Rex Foster
I use organic materials. Fossil Ivory; 14k gold & sterling silver to hand fabricate all metal work. No casting. I have developed tools-technique specifically for these materials for over 40 years.
Mark Grosser
I create bold, dramatic designs featuring yellow, white & red gold, diamonds & gemstones. I use lost-wax techniques enhanced with hand fabrication to create a fusion of the natural and architectural.
James Hardwick
http://www.jameshardwickjewelers.com
I make each piece by fabricating in wire & sheet metal or making a wax model & casting. All color is rock or stone in one form or another, metal is gold or silver,I have started doing hand engraving.
Sandy Harris Murphy
http://www.sandyharrismurphy.com
Consciously sourced diamonds,precious and semi- stones are incorporated in fabricated designs.Keumboo,22K and 14K gold refined in the Colorado studio ('green' metal) in hand fabricated designs.
Josh Hirt
I hand-weave and intricately knot 4-124 strands of uniquely soft and durable fibers into my originally designed jewelry. Adorned, are handmade beads and pieces I have collected in my world travels.
Julie Jerman-Melka
http://www.flyinganvildesigns.com
Hand hammered and forged sterling silver with cold connected Lake Superior beach stones, tube set gemstones and freshwater pearls
Donna Kubik
Sterling silver, 14k & 18K gold, semi & precious gemstones, forged, formed, patterned, and soldered
Michele Black
http://www.esotericafinejewelry.com
My secret desire is to challenge the conventions of fine jewelry.A mobile studio gives me the freedom to engineer and create wearable sculptures.Made with my own mill-textured silver,gold and gems.
Ivy McNulty
Hand engraved jewelry crafted of silver, copper & bronze create original designs. Adornments of turquoise, elk ivory & horsehair complete these necklaces, pendants, earrings, bracelets & more.
Anne Reichel
http://www.annereichel.gallery
Fabricated jewelry using Sterling silver, Reticulated silver, and/or 18k gold with unique gemstones, pearls and small natural stone beads
Sugatha Roeder
http://www.inlovewithpearls.com
Handcrafted Fine Silver,14KGold, Gold filled &Bronze in combination with high quality gemstones & pearls. Surface textures are created using hand-collected natural leaves.All pieces are one-of-a-kind
Wendy Witchner
http://www.wendywitchner-jewelry.com
Oxidized & texturized silver metal & hand coiled wire. Some designs incorporate antique buttons.
