The puffy mandrel is addictive and so are hollow beads! In Creating Glass Beads I provide the instructions for mirroring the interior of hollows.
Jeri and her husband Neil create many beads that are finished with altered surfaces, through the processes of sandblasting and/or flat lapping. Sandblasted beads are sometimes coated in enamel or reduction glass powder before being annealed. Jeri uses many different sandblast resists including materials such as vinyl and photo-resist.
Over the past ten years Jeri has collaborated with jewelry designer Ronnie Lambrou on many different necklaces. Sometimes the completed piece springs from one of Jeri's existing bead styles, other times it is based on a juried show's theme, or one of Ronnie's ideas, as it is explored by Jeri and Ronnie together. Jeri makes as many as 20 or 30 beads in the search for the "just right" 8-10 beads that Ronnie needs!
This pendant is my reaction to all of the headless and armless goddesses in the bead and art world. She is made up of the most important goddess elements, a brain with flashes of interior dichroic color, a strong heart bearing the scars of life and an impenetrable shield of palladium leaf, and an open hand.
Pompeii Series - this tablet shaped bead is demonstrative of my ongoing exploration of the use of inclusions with Moretti glass. The finished bead is achieved through the application of silver foil, aventurine, copper foil and copper mesh. This bead was selected for inclusion in the catalogue for the Obsessions Auction of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (2002) and later appeared in Lapidary Journal in the October 2002 Bead Annual.
Jeri frequently explores words, their meaning and their impact, through her work. This gallery contains some examples of that work.