Metal bead artist: Linda Kaye-Moses

Artist: Linda Kaye-Moses

Linda Kaye-Moses has been creating jewels since 1976 and in 1996 she became a Certified Precious Metal Clay artisan. She has shown her work in galleries and shows across the country including the Smithsonian Craft Show, ACC Craft Fairs, and The Paradise City Arts Festivals. Linda’s art has also been published in Art Jewelry Today and Art Jewelry Today I, Creative Metal Clay Jewelry, Fabulous Jewelry from Found Objects, PMC Decade, and Making Metal Beads. She is currently writing a book on metal clay, tentatively titled: Jewelry Arts Workshop: Making Pure Silver Beads with Metal Clay (Creative Publishing international, Spring 2009).

Of her art and inspirations, Linda states,

“My jewels concern themselves not simply with function but also with the implicit and explicit narrative capacity of adornment. They are an extension of my intention to build fully-realized objects by constructing jewels within environments of protective dwellings, like “nesting cases”, which often incorporate an original textual element such as a poem, song, or prose. I want each jewel to merge with its ‘nesting case’ to become a singular unit.

The inspirations for my work are varied; ancient artifacts, Fabergé constructions, the architectural fantasies of Brodsky and Utkin, the mediaeval reliquary, the complex and complicated structures that speak on many levels of human experience-especially humanity’s delight in the body-embellished. The ‘enclosure’, the vessel, the chest that contain carefully selected and assembled elements, and that reflect intimate symbology, are both my inspiration and my art form.”