Brian Bowden | profile | all galleries >> Glass ORBits - Contemporary Art Glass Marbles and Other Art Glass For Sale! >> Various Japanese Artists Beads and Pendants For Sale (Sold Out) >> Wakana Ogura, "Strawberries" Size: 0.91" Price: SOLD | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
Wakana no longer makes beads, as she went into mommy time for a while, and now makes cute little brooches, but while she was in bead creation mode, she made some of the finest and most detailed beads the world had ever seen. She has been featured in several prestigious bead publications, widely recognized as one of the world's best. All of her work is made from the super soft Japanese satake glass, so hard to work with in larger sizes (marbles for instance), but perfect for super fine details, and offering an amazing color palette. Wakana loved to focus on various themes in her beads, and this bead has the strawberries theme of course. She mad some marvelous milli in her time, and used it to perfection in her work. It's a little hard to tell in the pics, but there are layers to the glass here, so the berry effect is deeper. This is an amazing example of her work, and SO hard to find now!
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