Going with the flow

I’ve been struggling to recreate  the beads in my head into beads I can hold…and wear…and it has been quite an exercise for some days now….for some reason,the beads refused to be made like I wanted to…and today,the compulsive ‘flame and glass addict’ I’ve become,I sat down at my torch,choosing  to go with the flow…..
 What [...]

One day…

Two shows later,I’m still “hoping’ to upload some pics here….of my beads and some pieces that I enameled for “Enamel Revisited”,an Enamel show we put up as the Delhi Chapter of the Enamelist Society of India.Pity,the pics just don’t seem to have done justice to the pieces.
A few years ago,I wanted to do everything I [...]

Beads in Mumbai

Last week,I was in Mumbai,with a li’l box of handcrafted beads I displayed at a friend’s stall in a popular show….it was fun.I loved how people walked up to where the beads were and enquired about where and how they’d been made.
Lampworked beads as an artist’s medium are yet unheard of in India…I learnt making [...]

Of Collages and Art Journals

Convinced that being able to interpret everything I’d love to do and say visually and in color would help me create better beads and jewelry,I began looking for books and ideas about creating collages and art journals.I’d picked up a book on altered books about two years ago but that was not what my [...]