Playing with color and light, Jane creates her
glass jewelry in sumptuous hues and forms using a wide variety
of bead lampworking techniques. She enjoys sharing her passion
for love and for life with her galleries and customers through
the use of color and light in her designs.
Jane keeps a busy travel schedule, buying materials and developing
her exclusive glass bead designs. She works constantly to develop
new techniques and maintain the highest quality standards. "I
sometimes make a prototype bead, or we discuss the features of
a new bead design using crayon drawings. After several experimental
trials, we allow the bead to cool and it's true colors appear.
The final result is often a complete surpise, and often more
beautiful than what I originally envisioned".
Pursuing her
passion for color, Jane is an active member of CAUS, the Color
Association of the USA in New York. She studies all fashion colors
forecasts each season, carefully sculpting the color statement
of her collections in view of America’s changing women’s
fashions and color preferences. “ I love the process of
making a completely new color statement each year. I usually
introduce one dominant new color each season. At the same time
I look for unusual ways to combine two or more colors to create
a fresh vibration which enhances fashion fabrics and is stimulating
to the person wearing it.”
Originally from Boston, Jane lived in Italy where she sang as a primadonna
in Italian opera theaters. While living and singing in Venice, she fell in
love with glass, and learned to make handmade lampwork beads. She frequently
created beads and jewelry to wear for her own performances on stage. In 1993,
she tired of the life of a performer, returned to the USA and began to create
her own jewelry collections.
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