Flower Power Entries
Name of Piece: Flowers with Rhinestones
Artist Statement: I wanted to create a beautiful flower piece, including the use of rhinestones to make a fancier effect. I used colors from my astrological chart. This is my first attempt at flowers.
Name of Piece: Gardener’s lament
Artist statement: This hat band was inspired by a poem I read at the Grays County fairgrounds.
I used to love my garden,
But now my love is dead.
I found a bachelor’s button,
In black eyed Susan’s bed.
Name of Piece: Flowers in the sun
Artist Statement: This beaded flower project is a playful exploration of beauty, personality, and self-expression. The delicate petals are transformed through intricate beadwork, while the sunglasses add an unexpected sense of attitude and individuality.
By combining something traditionally associated with nature and femininity with a contemporary, almost whimsical accessory, the piece invites the viewer to see the flower as more than an object—it becomes a character with its own presence and personality.
The work is joyful, unexpected, and a little bit cheeky.
It’s a flower with an attitude—bright, confident, and unapologetically itself.
Name of Piece: I’ll Stand Alone
Artist statement: “It’s so lovely to stand in the field with all my friends gently swaying in the breeze. When it come to living in peace, respecting each other, valuing honesty and supporting those I care about, if need be, I will stand alone.”
Inspiration: The need to stand for the values I believe in.
Techniques: Netting and CRAW
Name of Piece: You Are So Loved
Artist statement: If you can’t send real flowers, how about surprising your love with a pop-up card filled with flowers. Flowers have the power to speak to the heart and say “You are so loved”.
Materials & techniques include seed beads, thread, cardstock, colored pencils and pop-up mechanics.
Name of Piece: I Dream of 1967
Artist statement: 1967 Summer of Love
If you're going
to San Francisco
Be sure to wear
some flowers in your hair
I turned 13 during the Summer of Love, and of course was NOT ALLOWED to actually GO.
But I listened to the radio, and I dreamed of running away to join in the FUN!
These days, when I revisit this dream, I see a 23-window VW MicroBus, and a beaded headband of flowers.
Name of Piece: Mirror Lake
Artist statement: I have forever been in love with the flowers that surround an alpine lake in the spring. My favorite has always been Mirror Lake in the Sierras of Yosemite. The flowers were inspired by a terrarium created by Cindy Holsclaw and then embroidered into a cuff.
Name of Piece: Flora
Artist Statement: In the late 1800s Art Nouveau exploded rebelliously onto the scene of industrialism with organic sinuous images of Woman, of flowers and of creatures considered fearsome as symbols of uncontrollable nature. Today, facing wars, extreme weather, runaway technology, AI and futuristic doomsday predictions, I hear a similar call to return to nature, the present and what is physically actually real. Approx 6-1/2” x 6-1/2” Bead embroidery
Name of Piece: Gone but Not Forgotten
Artist Statement: When I saw these two custom pink bead colors that Bobby Bead commissioned TOHO Beads to make, special, just for them, I fell in love and just knew I had to make something with them. The muse struck at one of those 3am sleepless nights when I saw a vision of a large geometric flower and felt a connection to the late, great beader, Dini Alves in tandem. I envisioned this flower as a large focal like the ones that Dini would have made and used in her work. This piece is a tribute to Dini, who embraced life with joy and so much fun, often silly, humor. Her beadwork was always one-of-a-kind - a little bit structured, yet a little bit carefree and funky at the same time.
