Selma Rainey of Rainey Designs is a self-taught glass and jewellery artist who creates unique, tiny forever flower bouquets. Based in Christchurch, she works alongside her husband Sean producing her miniature pieces of art. Working full time and doing what she loves, she is also a proud mum of two very creative girls.
This stunningly delicate flower implosion pendant is the work of Waikato glass lampworker Bobbie Pene, and it takes our breath away.
Eiko Kawaguchi of Studio A & Co lives and works in Waikuku, North Canterbury, her home for the last seventeen years. From her studio in a heritage mill complex she creates stunning, ethereal jewellery and tablewares in heat resistant borosilicate glass. Her love of glass as a material, and the lampworking method, shines through in her unique, delicate creations.
Lampworking uses a blow torch to melt glass and shape it with tools and hand movements. The gorgeous pendant above is a lampworked glass bead by Auckland jewellery maker Whatyamacallit. The bead is decorated by striping on a glass that is highly saturated in silver, … Read more »
Bobbie Pene of Lampwork has been creative since an early age, dabbling in various arts and crafts, including basic jewellery design. As a registered nurse working in a senior role, Bobbie finds that making glass beads is a meditative process that takes her mind away from everyday stressors. She sells her beads and completed jewellery online and in selected New Zealand galleries.