Peggy Brackett along with artist Jo Ludwig of Kiln Art make the most outstanding Dichroic Glass jewellery and crucibles. Peggy says “I get most of my artistic inspiration from the colours, textures & patterns of nature, especially from bugs, the smaller bits/details of plants, fish scales & eyes, sea critters and microscopic life-forms like diatoms.” 
“I like to hand carve, etch or sandblast designs into my glass, so I develop my designs by sketching or photographing objects that interest me; computer manipulating the images and then either having them reproduced in vinyl resist for me to sandblast them onto my glass or I copy them by hand onto the glass using a dremel tool or other resists.”
“One of my favourite design ideas I’ve been working on and developing over the last year-ish are what I call my “scutes” (from turtle shells) and “honeycomb” series: I make hordes of small half-rounds of dichroic glass which I arrange into large colourful mosaics that I fuse into a single glass panel. I transform this panel into jewellery pieces, cutting and grinding the mosaic into thin discs and then heat-doming them in my kiln to get a pleasing three-dimensional effect.” 
“They so come alive after the doming they’re a bit like little critters in their own right! Sometimes I heat-inset “glass jewels” into pieces or heat “jewel” the surface of the pieces (heat, not glue is my motto!). These “glass jewels” sparkle and shimmer when the piece (or the viewer) moves –they add a subtle delicate shimmery dimension.” 
“It’s all about the little details!”
You can see more of Peggy’s beautiful jewellery at Side Street Studio and at Kiln Art Glass.
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