Penn Cove Gallery September Featured Guest Artist: Gayle Minjarez

New to Whidbey Island, Gayle has found a very creative and active art culture. She is a guest artist at Penn Cove Gallery showing her contemporary jewelry collection. Her current designs focus on a combination of textures, various metals, and colorful semi-precious stones such as boulder opals from Australia, ammonite from British Columbia, tourmaline from Brazil. She begins her designs with texture plates that she creates by fusing gold and sterling silver geometric shapes to a base of sterling. Using a torch she creates reticulated silver to form a mountainous landscape pattern. She combines 24K gold and silver which has been oxidized which turns it black, for a dynamic black and gold pattern known as Keum Boo. With these textures and patterns she begins her design process.

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