Hello Everyone!

Just Saying Happy New Year really.

New Things on the way are my bead rings as can be seen on my homepage and in the New Gallery http://www.madelinebunyan.com/page8.htm here.

Currently I've been working on some raised floral and marine themed beads, yet more silver cored beads including some in a new colour from those lovely people at Double Helix, Pandora. This is a really unusual colour which strikes to an intense streaky purple with hints of turquoise and shocking pink.

Still to be developed are blown borosilicate beads and reverse twist beads. Pictures when I get around to it!

Madeline

well hello...

The website developments are slow at the moment, I've been busy at the torch playing with some techniques I have been meaning to have a go at. I bought a wonderful Goddess beads tutorial from Teresa Laliberte and got stuck in to making some figurative beads. They started as little fat venus of willendorf type things and have now progressed into ivory coloured statue type things, and I have decided not to make them skinny, but slimmed them down a fair bit, I like to think of them as real women shapes, curvy, and not entierly symmetrical, I've also started giving them a bit more movement rather than standing straight up.

The new stuff gallery ( apart from one random bead that managed to have its photo taken and an elephant) contains all my goddesses in the order that I made them.
this one is the latest.

I have joined some lampworking forums, and found many a bit of interesting information and helpful advice. links to the forums on the links page.

I even won the weekly challenge on the Lampwork etc forum, which means I get to set my own challenge!

I have been trying out some of the new techniques, including marbles, which I have been meaning to do for a while. When I have pictures they will go in the gallery somewhere.

I also gave shells a try, its not exactly working yet but I'm going to work on it.

I'm also feeling a return to fish coming on, I had a brief flit with some koi carp ideas a while back, going to work on those.

Thats about it for now, except to say that as soon as I decide what August's random giveaway will be I will post it here and on the site, so keep checking back, and join the mailing list!

hello again!

well, I've been fairly busy on the website the last few days, the shops finally have items in, albeit one each. unfortunately it seems I can only have one photo per item. To get around this problem I have added a new gallery, 'other views of shop items'  which has all the pictures of the items for sale. everything is linked everywhere possible so that you can find the other pictures easily and then return to the shop easily.

Other developments are a few new links, including glassartists.org where I have my own profile, and a few other artists who I have come across at various times. I will also be working on a page to go on the gbuk site

Also you may have noticed, there is a new random bead giveaway, for people on my mailing list. currently there arent many people on it (good for them, they stand more chance of winning beads) bad for everyone else who isn't in with a chance...go join my mailing list now!

I'd appreciate some feedback on the site please, use the guest book, or email me! (spent a good while making my website emails go to outlook so I can check them easier, no good if no-one sends me any!)

This was my plinth at new designers for all of you who didn't see it.
The hands are glass casts of my own hand. The cylinders of glass echo test tubes and scientific ware, the glass I use for my vessels is borosilicate tubing, the same thing they make test tubes out of, and the same kind of glass as pyrex.

well...this is it! its here! I have a web presence... if you want to call it that!

I will be building this website over the coming weeks, but bear with me...this is all pretty new to me and I have a summer show to put up next week...and after that, New Designers in London.


The Summer show at Plymouth college of art and design will run from Friday the 20th to Thursday the 26th of June

come and see my work! it will be  on display in the recpetion area!

New designers runs from the  3rd to 6th July at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London.

stand J14 Plymouth College of Art and Design (Jewellery)