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My most prominent skill is bead embroidery but as I say that, I know I must enjoy the process of every piece I have completed or it would not get done, no matter what the technique.
I bead in “the zone”—that is to say a meditative state. I can bead almost any where as long as I am physically comfortable. I have a studio that is dedicated to my art work, but I prefer to bead at the dining room table where I can have my music or TV and sometimes a cat in my lap.
I am inspired by almost anything that I find interesting enough to spend time with whether it is music, line, design, color or something that someone says. I spend a lot of time with other artists that inspire and stimulate. Humor is important in a friend; dullness, self-centeredness and negativity are a “put off”.
All that being said, the bottom line is that beading is, most times, an isolating (but not lonely) & inside job that comes from deep inside every artist’s heart.
To see more of my work, look at Beadwork magazine, October/November 2006 issue, article entitled “Drama Queen Cuff”, pages 84 & 85.
I also wrote the article about Bead International 2006/07, same issue,
pages 86-88. Web site: www.interweavepress.com
“Finishing the Doll” by Susana Oroyan, page 105
Stupa Ring photos and directions are in the Oct/Nov 2008 issue of Beadwork magazine.