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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Lola Brooks and Tracy Kendall

A renegade jeweler and a bespoke wallpaper artist.  Inspiration for clay?  You bet.

LOLA BROOKS: ROCK STAR


Lola Brooks, a jewelry artist with more than her fair share of tattoos, (two sleeves full, thank you very much,) has a beautiful, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek approach toward precious materials. 


I love the chunky, candy-like quality of these heart brooches - those pink faceted gems - delish.  And the garnet-studded net of her bleeding heart is at once a little squirmy and a lot rockin'.  I love that she takes these precious objects and turns them into something else - something with wit and soul and life.


 
Find out more about Lola Brooks at www.siennagallery.com/studiojewelry.php






TRACY KENDALL: WALLPAPER COUTURE




If Lola Brooks is a rock star of jewelry, then Tracy Kendall is the couturier of wallpaper.  Her three dimensional work is elegant, witty and perfect.  I love her use of words, of repetition, of unorthodox elements.


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Why let the gorgeous words of Tennyson and Shakepeare languish in dusty books?  Let the lines from A Midsummer Night's Dream breathe and inspire stitched in a fluid font on your bedroom wall!  I wonder if Tracy Kendall's handwriting actually looks like this? 







See more of Tracy Kendall's work at www.tracykendall.com




1 comment:

  1. That's our wallpaper! I love that Tracy Kendall. I would love for her to embroider my walls with the first act of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

    You = inspiration. xx

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