Buffalo Creek Gallery |
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Donna Spiker |
"Every piece of jewelry I make is a unique creation of it's own and can never be duplicated. You will own the only one of it's kind!" |
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Donna Spiker worked stained glass for 24 years. She started out in panels, lamps, sun catchers, kaleidoscopes and so on. Then she decided to shift gears and try her hand at working stained glass into jewelry! |
Donna now makes dichroic glass pendants, watches and earrings and she makes lamp-work beads. Dichroic glass is cut, ground and put in a kiln at a temperature of 1500° F, and finally put into a piece of jewelry. The lamp-work beads are made from large pieces of rod glass that are heated in the flame from a torch, formed with tools, cooled, and annealed in a kiln.
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Dichroic glass is a fairly recent addition to the art glass community. It's made in a heated vacuum chamber, where aluminum, chromium, silicon, titanium, and zirconium are applied to the glass in varying layers, depending on the desired colors.
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The thin metallic layers produce completely different colors in reflected and transmitted light. There is also a third "shift" in color that results from viewing the glass at an angle, where you can see a bit of both the transmitted and reflected light. |
Contact Donna at: ronndj@bellsouth.net |