Keith Lewis earrings, Black and Gold-Leaf Pyramids
Keith Lewis earrings, Pink Pyramids
Keith Lewis, jewelry artist, has a wonderful collection of super light-weight earrings. These new designs, eco-friendly Pyramids, are featured at Gallery Five. Keith’s eco-friendly designs are sculpted from a material made with recycled water bottles! Some of the earwires are anodized niobium while others are either gold filled or sterling silver.
Artist Statement: In my work I explore the line between accident and control, manipulating the inherent qualities of natural materials. The design concept at the heart of nearly all my designs is a simple shape in a moveable (kinetic) format. Nearly every finding is handmade to enhance this movement; an earwire allows a shape to rotate, a connector will swivel, a loop will act as a hinge. The handmade earwires allowed me to develop my signature earring, which is designed to fasten closed.
Gallery Five est. 1982 and Gallery Five Online since 1999
This month’s Gallery Five Jewelry Show features the work of jewelry artist, Birgitt Hellemann. She is a designer of candy-colored necklaces, bracelets and earrings. She creates her designs by fusing layers of glass in a kiln that reaches temperatures of 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. Some of Birgitt’s jewelry is made with dichroic glass, which is coated in layers of metal-oxides that shimmer and change when heated. Hand cut and assembled by Birgitt, these jewels are hard to put down!
One-of-a-kind and limited edition, fun, funky, flashy jewelry.
UPCOMING TRUNK SHOWS
January 8-12: Anja Broenink
MEET THE ARTIST on Saturday, January 12 • 12-4pm
Anja Broenink creates fun, stretchy, comfortable and colorful wearable art … one-of-a-kind women’s clothing.
January 15-19: Valery Guignon
MEET THE ARTIST on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 15-16 • 12-4pm
Valery Guignon uses hand dyed silk, cotton and mesh applique to create stunning hand dyed clothing.This internationally famous designer makes original vests … and hand dyed
silk ponchos with see-through windows front and back.
Gallery Five
Wearable ARt and Fine Crafts
in Tequesta, Florida since 1982
Gallery Five features Simon Trudeau who has been working as an artisan designer since 1994, and selling his work at different retail shows and to some stores and galleries in Canada and United States. Anemone bags were part of Jean Paul Gaultier exhibiton during the summer of 2011 at the Museum of Fine Art of Montreal.
“I design the bags and sculpt the molds and make all the steps of the production. My rational mind is inspired by techniques and machine and my irrational side is attracted by the complex sacred shapes of nature, I want my bags to look like huge jewels or empty sculptures that you can fill and carry with you…”
This sturdy purple futuristic molded vinyl 13″ Laptop Bag is handmade. Includes two side pockets. Adjustable strap is also detachable.
Size: 13.5″ x 10.5″ x 3.5″
Strap: 1.5″ wide, longest length 25″-26″ drop
Lightweight Art to Wear Jewelry. Browse the Gallery Five Collection of jewelry artists, featuring new work by Carol & Jean-Pierre Hsu.
Brightly colored pins and earrings are lightweight with a modern art feel. Hsu jewelry is made of Anondized Aluminum. Anondizing is an electro-chemical process that prepares the metal to accept a dye of almost any color. Every element of this piece is cut by hand and hand-finished.
Care of Jewelry: As with any fine jewelry, proper care is recommended. To clean, use a soft, damp cloth, avoiding abrasives. If needed, a pencil eraser may be used to brighten the individual sterling silver rivets.
Gallery Five celebrates 31st Season in Tequesta, Florida.
More New Teresa Goodall Arrivals
“Cedar” by Teresa Goodall
“Tocatta” by Teresa Goodall
Artist’s Statement
Enjoy timeless jewelry for years to come. Using color combinations found in nature, Teresa creates accessories that work with the casual soft dressing of today. A floral garden, to an ocean paradise … a calming sunset to the enchanted north woods: colors are layered and blended to make jewelry to complement not one piece of the wardrobe, but many.
Gallery Five
Wearable Art and Fine Crafts
since 1982 in Tequesta, Florida
561-747-5555
Teresa Goodall – Barnum Collection
Artist’s Statement
Enjoy timeless jewelry for years to come. Using color combinations found in nature, Teresa creates accessories that work with the casual soft dressing of today. A floral garden, to an ocean paradise … a calming sunset to the enchanted north woods: colors are layered and blended to make jewelry to complement not one piece of the wardrobe, but many.
Teresa’s stoneware beads in organic shapes and colors are individually hand sculptured from clay. The raw clay beads are dipped or painted with glaze and then fired in high temperature kiln. Her stoneware beads are known for the soft hues that are the fruition of this process.
Other beads are gathered from around the world. Czech, African, Indian, Indonesian and Chinese glass and stones are imported for use in her jewelry. Carved bone beads come from India. The dusty hues of the bone beads are achieved by Teresa mixing colors and dying them in her studio. Designs are knotted, wrapped, and made to order by a small talented crew of artisans in Minneapolis.
Teresa is a self-taught jewelry designer. Formal training at the University of Minnesota’s design department was cut short by her desire to go into business for herself. The first wholesale line was offered to retailers in the spring of 1983.
Gallery Five
Wearable Art and Fine Crafts
since 1982 in Tequesta, Florida
561-747-5555
Vintage Julie Shaw at Gallery Five Online. One-of-a-kind. Browse the collection of fine craftsmanship of this prominent jewelry artisan and others.
Artist’s Statement
Julie Shaw has been designing and crafting exquisite jewelry for over thirty years. Using sterling silver accented with 14k, 18k, and 22k gold, her creations are then magicallly transformed by a patina that enhances unique agates, jaspers and precious stones. While Julie’s jewelry is true art, it is very wearable and goes equally well with jeans or formal attire.
Inspiration for Julie’s original designs comes from many sources, including her spiritual connection to nature and travels to ancient and sacred places around the world. This tantalizing jewelry may be found at galleries and stores nationwide.
Gallery Five Wearable Art and Fine Crafts
since 1982 in Tequesta, Florida
561-747-5555
Birgitt Hellemann is a new jewelry artist now featured at Gallery Five in Tequesta, Florida
Originally from Hamburg, Germany, Birgitt Hellemann is the designer of candy-colored necklaces, bracelets and earrings. She creates her designs by fusing layers of glass in a kiln that reaches temperatures of 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. Some of Birgitt’s jewelry is made with dichroic glass, which is coated in layers of metal-oxides that shimmer and change when heated. Hand cut and assembled by Birgitt, these jewels are hard to put down!
Limited edition jewelry. Handmade in the USA.
Gallery Five, since 1982
in Tequesta, Florida
561-747-5555
A collection of meticulously handmade Faience Broad Collars by Carol Strick are on a Clearance Sale at Gallery Five. Gallery Five, established in 1982, features Wearable Art and Fine Crafts from prominent and promising artisans from throughout the U.S. and a few in Canada.
Artist’s Statement – Carol Strick
The Egyptians of high antiquity were the unrivalled masters of the jewelry arts. Of all the jewelry produced in the days of the pharoahs, the broad collars were the most outstanding and elegant.
Faience Broad Collar by Carol Strick – Clearance Sale, now $250
Broad collars were composed of hundreds of small beads which were strung in a such a way they would lay flat, forming a wide, colorful, circular collar which lay across the top of the chest. They were worn by both men and women for some 25 centuries and were so common that they were almost an article of dress in ancient Egypt. Despite their massive appearance, broad collars were light and quite comfortable to wear, even in the hot and humid Valley of the Nile. This was partly due to the space between each bead, but also because most of the broad collars were made of light material. Not only broad collars, but also much of Egyptian jewelry was made from a synthetic ceramic which we today know as faience. Faience is related to glass, but was developed several centuries before glass. It is the first synthetic material made by man.
The lost art of faience was rediscovered by American artist, Carol Strick, in the late 1960′s and 1970′s. Before Carol Strick went into production there were only two places in the world where faience was being made on a regular basis – Qom, Iran and Qorna, Egypt. After visiting those two places and years of patient research and testing, Strick finally perfected a formula and began producing perfect replicas of the ancient Egyptian jewelry. Her work has been featured at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Faience Broad Collars by Carol Strick – Clearance Sale, now $250
Just as was true in ancient Egypt, Carol Strick’s most spectacular pieces are her broad collars. Each collar requires that she makes hundreds of small tubular beads by hand and then string them in five or six rows. At the end of each collar, a large semi-circular faience plaque, known as the terminal bead, is attached. These terminals finish the collars at the ends, provide some counter-weight at the back of the neck, and allow the wearer to tie the collars at the back. She uses a faience formula and stringing technique similar to that used by ancient Egyptians. Two primary techniques are used, plaster press-molds for amulets and rolling for the beads.
Gallery Five, Tequesta, Florida – established 1982
Sheena Cameron, ceramic artist, calls the clay horses featured here ‘MESSENGER HORSES.’ Enjoy looking at them. We hope you will visit the collection at Gallery Five and find one with special meaning for you.
“Vision Quest Under the Light of the Moon” view of booklet and closed comparment
- Vision Quest Under the Light of the Moon – other side
Each horse comes with its own personalized miniature booklet. On one side is a horse picture and several paragraphs about the general symbolism. On the other side is the name of that particular horse, a list of all the components and gemstones, their symbolism, and the symbolism of the piece as a whole. And of course each owner will be bringing her or his own personal symbolism to the piece. Check out Sheena Cameron at Gallery Five and other Fine Crafts collections.
Artist’s Statement
Sheena received her B.F.A. in ceramic sculpture in 1969 and spent the next 33 years making art jewelry. She moved to New Mexico in 1981. In 2003 she got back into working with clay, started experimenting with making horses and they seemed to take on a life of their own. Soon, and after much hard work, they evolved into what you see today and have become very popular.
Most of Sheena Cameron’s pieces are raku. Some are fired in a Japanese style wood burning kiln and some are stoneware. She uses genuine gemstones and other unique additions. All of the legs are masonry nails. Many of the horses open and close and have a lot of detail work.
Gallery Five, established in 1982
Tequesta, Florida – 561-747-5555
The hope is that you will bookmark the site and return to see the growing collections.