Nature's Colors - new jewelry designs by Judy Jacobs

Featured July 2015 at Art Central Gallery www.artcgalleryltd.com

Design by Judy Jacobs inspired by a pileated woodpecker.

Art Central is proud to feature new designs by jeweler Judy Jacobs.  “I’m inspired by nature, especially birds,” says Jacobs.  She is thrilled by the variety of color combinations and shapes in leaves, wings and other details of Creation. “If you look closely at the colors I use, you can almost identify the bird. Iridescent hummingbirds, red, black and white from our variety of woodpeckers, exotic birds from the Far East and South America,” she explains. “The one exception is the use of green; those tones I pick from forest ferns.”

Jacobs set her sights on global exploration early in life. First with the Red Cross and then as a military spouse, she has lived in numerous Far Eastern and Middle Eastern countries, as well as the South Pacific where her love of design with natural stones and semi-precious materials flourished.

Along the way, the artist’s love of nature, from stones formed deep in the earth to living creatures, matured into one expression through jewelry.  Jacobs’ new work includes a necklace with light green chrysophase stones and a hand-blown glass pendant which is inspired by a fern.

 Another necklace includes an intricate Tibetan pendant with coral and lapis lazuli.  This beautiful pendant brings to the artist’s mind one of the many parrots that lives in the rain forest.

See Judy Jacobs’ newest work at Art Central Gallery during the month of July, and meet the artists at Third Thursday, July 16, 2015 5-8pm .  More information is available at www.artcgalleryltd.com .