Mhoti Studio

I'm taking part in BEAD PEEPS 3rd Annual HOP N SWAP hosted by Linda Anderson.  This is the first time for me to do this event.  As part of the requirements we have been asked to tell a little bit about ourselves, what we do as jewellery artists, our style, our likes and dislikes, our preferred materials to use and what we don't like to use at all.  I am sort of retired, (as in not working but not old enough to officially retire.) I have been making jewellery for at least 10 years. I work primarily with semi precious gemstones, glass beads, copper, silver plate or silver-filled wire, leather, chain, linen, silk and other fibres.  I don't do bead embroidery but I do use seed beads as spacers or for filling up stringing wire to make it pretty.  I also work with metal clays, in past using a friends kiln I made pendants in copper clay,  bronze clay and steel clay.  Now I limit myself to silver clay as that can be torch fired. The past two years I have started to

Yesterday I spent the day at a workshop hosted by a fellow artist and friend, Wendy Southin of Dragonfly Dreamers  studio.  We were playing with Gelli Plates and making mono-print artwork.We began by creating standard mono-prints on various paper types.  After a lunch break we got down and dirty with making layers on our base prints. I came away with an incredible assortment of art prints that I can add to in future, (they don't LOOK FINISHED yet). But I did get three that I am very pleased to say are done, that is I don't think they need anything else other than to be framed or mounted. I don't have titles for these. They haven't divulged what they want to be called yet. The first one is a yellow-toned study with touches of dark green and metallic copper.  I decided to be a bit brave and work in black white and grey, an odd choice I'm sure the others thought when I started. In the end we were all impressed with how they tur

New year, same old intentions.To update my blog more often. Will I be consistent? who knows. but I will try. For now, here is a photo from one of the shows I did last year. not only jewellery but paper crafts as well.  and a close up of some of the items I sold , the four necklaces on the left hand side are all sold and gone on to new homes. Only one of the bracelets below them is left in stock. the two necklaces on the right are going to be taken apart and remade . they seem a bit bland to me and haven't sold, so it's time to tweak them a bit and see what happens.