Today’s guest post comes from jewelry artist and Art Bead Scene reader Kaushambi Shah. I thought our readers
would enjoy how Kaushambi took the Art Bead Scene’s inspiration and channeled it into an art exhibit at her workplace.
Art in The Office
10 July to 31 August, 2012
RTKL, Washington DC
Art
in The Office is a monthly event in RTKL’s Washington DC office, where
employee artists are encouraged to curate creative endeavors beyond the
workplace.
Displayed in the chic entry lobby of our 60,000 SF Downtown DC office
space, my exhibit kicked-off with an Artist Talk & Happy Hour.
Inspired
by paintings of some of my favorite artists in my growing years, RTKL’s
encouraging platform, and the Art Bead Scene community’s monthly
challenges, I decided to extend my hobby of handcrafting jewelry towards
10 jewelry pieces themed around 10 paintings of different artists.
While taking cues from the painting style, historical context and color
palette during the design process, I carefully chose beads of
appropriate materials and textures to go with the overall theme. And
amongst this material palette, many are “art beads”- beads handcrafted
by other artists.
At all points in the design process, my primary aim was to capture the
mood and spirit of the painting. And I used different techniques to
enhance each design.
Three out of ten exhibits are hereby shared in more detail.
Click on the images below to read a sampling of Kaushambi’s inspiration for each piece.
Artist Bio: Kaushambi Shah
While work largely involves large scale envisioning and
designing as an Urban Designer, I enjoy conceptualizing and
handcrafting small things at home.
Handcrafting jewelry has been a recent hobby – and bringing together different materials, textures and colors excites me most.
While most of my design themes revolve around things found and
experienced in nature, I also like to draw inspiration from artists who
find their muse in the natural world.
In this series, I have drawn
inspiration from some of my favorite artists—Van Gogh, Monet, Gustav
Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others.
For more information please contact the artist at [email protected].
