Custom Jewelry Design Biography
Source (google.com.pk )Adrienne has been designing for Green Lake since 2007, and while her focus is primarily on CAD modeling and rapid prototyping, she really enjoys working with clients to create unique custom pieces of fine jewelry. Her designs tend to have clean lines, geometric shapes, surprising and subtle details, and moving mechanisms. She loves the challenge of experimental work and the beauty of hand fabricated jewelry.
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Adrienne has been designing for Green Lake since 2007, and while her focus is primarily on CAD modeling and rapid prototyping, she really enjoys working with clients to create unique custom pieces of fine jewelry. Her designs tend to have clean lines, geometric shapes, surprising and subtle details, and moving mechanisms. She loves the challenge of experimental work and the beauty of hand fabricated jewelry. Adrienne specializes in sketching and drafting and loves teaching those around her how to perfect the scale, line quality, and color in their jewelry sketches. She also uses Adobe® Photoshop® as a way to render her drawings for a more realistic look. Outside Green Lake, Adrienne continues to improve her skills as a metalsmith and practices stone setting, engraving, mold making, casting, and fabrication at her own bench. More than anything, Adrienne loves a design challenge, whether it's a large scale piece, working with color, or figuring out how to make an unusual piece of jewelry structurally sound. She is detail oriented and committed to designing each piece of jewelry so that it's aesthetically captivating and unique. Adrienne studied art at Colorado State University, where she graduated with a concentration in sculpture and a minor in dance. Since moving to Seattle in 2006, her focus has actually been on both jewelry and dance. She has choreographed and performed with a Seattle-based aerial dance company since 2008. As Adrienne continues in her career, she draws on the inherent similarities between fine jewelry, body adornment, dance, and movement.
As far back as he can remember, growing up near the crashing waves of southern california, Lance Heck has always had two loves: being outdoors and creating things. Of course it may have had something to do with his parents; one was an aspiring artist, the other an avid outdoorsman.
What started as a hobby at age eight : rock collecting and gem cutting (he won the national junior lapidary title at age 11- the youngest ever to win), eventually turned into a passion and then a destiny. After graduating college with a degree in fine art, and later, gemology (from the G.I.A.), Lance apprenticed with the master craftsman James Grahl. For seven years, he immersed himself in the european method of hand fabrication, wax carving, and stone setting. Around the same time (at age 18) lance was juried into the prestigious 'Festival of Arts' in Laguna Beach, CA. "It was a surreal moment" said Lance after being admitted into a show he was in awe of, and frequented with his art-loving mother as a young child. Now today, after being an exhibitor for thirty continuous years, his respect for the show is as great now as ever. Along the way he has been a board member, vice president, juror (twice) and one of his pieces was even acquired by the festival for it's permanent collection.
Lance has also won or placed in many major jewelry design competitions including:
AGTA Spectrum Awards (Ist place)
Jewelers Choice Awards (2nd, 3rd place)
Diamonds International Awards (London finalist)
Diamonds Today (1st runner up)
INSPIRATIONS
It can come from many sources, from man-made objects like architecture, machinery, or even a freeway overpass, to almost anything found in nature. In fact, being in nature and the great outdoors is not only inspiring, for Lance it is truly spiritual. Whether it's camping with his family ,going for a hike, a mountain bike or surf/ski session, anytime he is in "natures' backyard" is time well spent.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"I strive for an asthetic that blends contemporary, clean design with an obsession for craftsmanship and detail that is 'old world' I hope that when you hold one of my pieces, you will see the quality, feel the inspiration, and above all, know that you are wearing art!"
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