Suzanne Basnett
Richmond, BC
imagesinglass@gmail.com
Suzanne enjoys doing many arts
and crafts including knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, sewing,
stained glass, and more recently, lampworking, silversmithing,
and beading. She spends as many hours in her studio creating
new beads & jewellery as she can.
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Kerry S. Caron
Delta, B.C.
www.moondance-beads.com
ks_caron@yahoo.com
Kerry is a full time educational
assistant working with special-needs children in a high school.
She also teachers survival sign language and other students how
to work with special-needs. Her current work in glass reflects
some of the places she has traveled to in the world as well as
some she would like to visit. Working with glass for over 30
years, Kerry has found an extreme passion in lampwork beads.
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Stephanie Dieleman
Langley, BC
www.stephaniebeads.com
stephanie@stephaniebeads.com
Stephanie has been making beads
since 2005. She is influenced by the beautiful coastline of British
Columbia. She sells her jewellery line under the name of “Pacific
Shores”.
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Melanie Graham
White Rock, BC
www.melanie-graham.blogspot.com
melanie_c_graham@hotmail.com
Melanie Graham, originally from
Ontario, moved to British Columbia in 2007 after six years in
Nova Scotia and a detour to South Korea. She strives for grace,
harmony and balance in her work, believing that those qualities
are in short supply out in the world.
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Maria Keating
Vancouver, BC
mkeating@telus.net
Maria Keating, a Vancouver glass
artist, has been drawn to the flame of lampworking for over five
years. Her playful and wearable designs capture light and sparkle.
She will be launching her Etsy store, RocketBully, soon.
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Ania Kyte
Mission, BC
www.turtlebeads.com
turtlebeads@hotmail.com
In her cozy home studio, Ania
has been creating flameworked glass beads and teaching private
classes since 2001. Since Ania also incorporates her artglass
beads into her custom jewellery designs, she is inspired to make
the beads as functional as possible, and highlights their beauty
by showcasing them with pearls, gemstones, crystals, and sterling
silver or gold findings. Ania is encouraged in the pursuit of
her artwork by her family and her clients.
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Michelle-Marie Lusk
Mission, BC
www.calienteglass.com
calienteglass@shaw.ca
Michelle-Marie has been creating
art glass for the past 18 years for Corporate Canada designers
and collectors around the world. Her true passion is to the flame
where she puts her own “spin” on lampworking.
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Damaris Oakley
Nanaimo, BC
www.redfireart.com
damaris@redfireart.com
Damaris Oakley has been fascinated
with beading and jewellery making for years. Her obsession with
beading evolved to torching her own glass beads and using them
as inspiration for her jewellery designs. Damaris has been making
glass beads for the past five years.
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Melanie Rowe
Chilliwack, BC
www.twinvision.fusedglassartists.com
roweglass@shaw.ca
Melanie has been creating in
the glass medium for over 35 years. This has taken her to many
adventures such as mold making, fusing, casting, flameworking,
and many more techniques, which she has taught for many years
around the world.
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David Sivers
Nanaimo, BC
sivers@telus.net
David has created Effetre beads
and Borosilicate sculptures since he attended Red Deer College
in 2000. He also enjoys blowing furnace glass when time opportunity
arises.
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Nicole Valentine-Rimmer
Victoria, BC
www.vnalentinestudio.etsy.com
nvalentine@shaw.ca
Nicole has been creating tiny
works of art in glass since 2003, in her home studio in Victoria,
B.C. Working mainly in soft glass, she loves the colours and
reactions it provides, she often draws inspiration from the Canadian
wilderness and all the gardens in her area.
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Janet Wood
Richmond, BC
www.hotstuffglasscreations.com
scootrgrl@hotmail.com
Janet of Hotstuff Glass Creations
lives in Steveston, BC, and has been making lampwork beads for
four years.
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Ikuyo Yamanaka
Coquitlam, BC
www.ikuyoglassart.ca
ikuyo@shaw.ca
Ikuyo began the craft of lampworking
in Japan in 1975. In 1978 she began participating in exhibitions,
both group and solo. Nowadays, Ikuyo concentrates on making beads.
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