Wearable Art and Fine Crafts

Sarah Cavender Artist Profile

Sarah designs and produces several new seasonal collections each year. She specializes in metal mesh jewelry, belts and handbags. Each piece is handmade to order by local artisans under Sarah’s supervision in Oxford, Alabama, using materials primarily made in the USA with stones imported from Europe. The pieces are created from brass screening by folding and bending the material. It is then plated or oxidized and finished by hand painting with bronze powders mixed in a lacquer base. Sarah discovered the beauty and versatility of bronze screening and other wire materials while studying sculpture at the Philadelphia College of Art. After graduating in 1994, she stayed in Philadelphia and applied her skills and understanding of metal to develop a process of forming these materials into wonderful floral, leaf and insect representations, as well as abstract forms. She looks to her extensive world travel experiences for inspiration. Her knowledge of art history and design influence her varied design approach. Although constantly searching for uncommon and unique materials, she makes sure each piece contains an element of woven wire. Over the years her work has been featured several times in trade publications and top fashion magazines such as Vogue, Mademoiselle, In-Style, Glamour and McCalls.

Gallery Five art jewelry collection.  New Sarah Cavender jewelry coming in next week.

Gallery Five Show of Jewelry Artist, Patricia McCleery – March 1-31, 2010

Celebrated in Santa Fe for her innovative designs, Patricia McCleery studied with famed Hopi Jeweler Charles Loloma and designed for the Smithsonian Catalog. Lapidary Journal, American Style Magazine and the Santa Fean have noted her work.

Patricia has been fascinated with the amulets and talismans of ancient cultures. The ancient cliff dwellings of the Southwest inspired her to use Prehistoric Mammoth tusk, and Australian Boulder Opal in combination with silver and 22K gold to create pieces that connect us to a mysterious ancient message. An ancient message retold in modern time.

Pictured to the right is a Patricia McCleery sterling silver pendant with 22k gold accents with an ivory fossil face. Leather linen cord.  This distinctive pendant is 3″ x 3 1/2″ – length 17″.

Browse Gallery Five collections of American made art jewelry by prominent and promising artisans.

2010 Greetings from Florida .... Paula and Paul Coben

Gallery Five’s January Shows feature
three distinctive Trunk Shows and artisan jewelry
from the work of two very distinctive jewelry artists.

JEWELRY SHOW

January 26-30
Leni Hoch

January 2-30
Julie Shaw
Penelope Weinstein

TRUNK SHOWS

January 12-16
Mina Norton

January 19-23
Elizabeth Garver

Gallery Five is in its 28th season, featuring wearable art and five types of fine crafts by American Artists: ceramics, glass, fiber, metal and wood.

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 magically transformed by a patina that enhances unique agates, jaspers, opals and other precious stones.

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 fine stores nationwide.

Bring the beauty and power of this truly wearable art into your life.

See Julie Shaw’s new artisan rings now showing at Gallery Five.

variscite stone

layers of enamel

turquoise stone