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Just In!
New work at Handscapes
Scavenger Art
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Janet Harriman
Be sure to stop by on Saturday, Aug. 31 (Labor Day weekend).
Janet Harriman will be demonstrating her jewelry making techniques on the back porch. Janet was featured in our July newsletter and is known for her unique PMC and enamel creations.
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Millefiore
A Thousand Flowers
The term "millefiore" is an Italian word meaning "a thousand flowers". It originated with Venetian glass. Small glass tubes were fused together to form long "canes". These canes, when sliced into segments, contained a flower pattern that ran all the way through the glass.
Nowdays, the technique is used in porcelain and polymer clays as well as in glass to produce intricate designs. The photos below show what polymer clay "canes" look like before being sliced.
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Furry Friends
Dory
Dory is a popular dog about town, accompanying Mike and Corliss Bradley everywhere they go. She also presides over 102 Ann Street, Mike and Corliss' beautiful waterfront vacation rental in Beaufort. (252 732 4125 102Ann.com ) And yes, well behaved dogs are welcome.
Other "dog friendly" inns include The Red Dog Inn (252 728 5954)and The Carteret County Home Bed & Breakfast (252 728 4611) |
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Pyrate Invasion
In 1747 the Beaufort Town Militia met the longboats of Spanish pyrates set on pillaging the town.
History records that nearly 100 local farmers and townspeople joined the small band of militiamen in the defense of the town. The result was victory over the invading pyrates. It is said that some of the pyrates were buried in the Old Burying Grounds where they remain today.
The Beaufort Pyrate Invasion was an annual town event from 1960 to 1983. The Beaufort Business Association revived the event this year on August 8 & 9. The town was filled with pyrate re-enactors and a great time was had by young and old alike.
For more information about this year's event as well as future events, contact the Beaufort Business Association or feel free to email us for contact info: handscapes@gmail.com | |
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In this issue of our newsletter we will profile two very different artists, both of whom take their inspiration from nature. Cynthia Chuang and Ehr-Ping Tsai of Jewelry 10 use the natural world as a springboard for their whimsical jewelry, while local glass artist Stan Harmon creates realistic portraits of sea life in cast glass. |
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Jewelry 10
Fantastic Creatures in Porcelain
Cynthia Chuang and Ehr-Ping Tsai create these fantastic porcelain creatures. The couple began in 1984 making porcelain earrings. The original designs were inspired by their love of nature, colorful primitive art and the black and white of Chinese calligraphy. Over time, the patterns became more complex and they began adding gold and other metal pieces to the designs. The early animals were made out of leftover earring parts, and were intended as toys for Cynthia's niece and nephew.
As time went on, the animals became more fantastic and more sculptural and they began to make them into pins. Today Jewelry 10 is best known for their fabulous insect, reptile, fish and other creature pins.
Born and raised in Southern Taiwan, both Cynthia and Ehr-Ping attended the National Taiwan Acamemy of Art. After graduation, they married and moved to the United States. The couple then went on to get graduate degrees in sculpture from Parsons School of Design. They continued their education at the NY Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
Wearing a Jewelry 10 pin is truly like wearing a piece of art. Click on this link to see more work by
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Stan Harmon
Cast Glass
 "I am primarily a self-taught artist. My work with various glass techniques since the late '70s has provided me insight into the magic that can be produced when light is combined with glass. Sheets of raw glass can be objects of beauty in themselves. The challenge as an artist is to harness and then transform that intrinsic beauty into my interpretations of the natural world. I live on a river in eastern North Carolina and daily saturate myself with all that lives in and along its shores. It's only natural that my life style influences my art."
 Stan Harmon grew up in the small piedmont town of Newton, NC. He moved to eastern North Carolina after high school to attend East Carolina University. He studied chemistry until landing a job in the environmental water resources field. If you ask him, Stan will say that his creative undertakings began "in the sandbox." He taught himself traditional stained glass techniques in 1979 while in the process of restoring a historic home in Lenoir County, NC. Since that time, he has restored historic homes in Pitt and Greene County, NC and produced stained glass works for churches, commercial buildings, and private residences.
The fish panels start with a single sheet of glass placed over a hand drawn picture placed on top of a light table. This allows him to see how thick he needs to apply the varying colors of glass powder, vitreous enamels, and crushed frits to create the image. Sometimes as much as a one-inch layer of crushed glass is applied at one time and fired. The base sheet of glass is placed on a kiln shelf and fired to 1420 degrees F. The glass melts flat, as glass seeks to maintain a ¼ in. thickness. Several firings may be needed to achieve the desired image. Each firing requires 12 to 24 hours of kiln time. Some pieces require as many as 10 firings, which easily takes ten days or more. Sometimes several sheets of glass will be stacked to achieve the image.
To see more of Stan's work, click on
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
- Paul Valery
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We hope you enjoyed our newsletter and hope you will come and see us....enjoy the view from our back porch.
All the best from
Alison, Jill, Kate, Linda, Sharon, Ann, Betty and Jessica
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