I’d like to thank the women of the Earrings Everyday blog for inviting me to contribute a guest
post to one of my favorite blogs. I’m delighted to have this opportunity to rub shoulders with
this talented group of artists.
Let me introduce myself to
those of you who might not be familiar with my work.
I’m Janet Loomis of AnvilArtifacts.
I suspect that I was born
with an innate love of jewelry.
I began making actual
wearable jewelry (as opposed to daisy necklaces, etc) in my teens
and started selling
jewelry in my early twenties.
There are countless styles
of jewelry that I admire and enjoy making but today I’ll focus on one particular aesthetic that I especially
enjoy.
My work is strongly
influenced by a fascination with found objects and historical artifacts.
I’m not sure if I should attribute this to my Viking roots (as
my husband refers to it) or to my
childhood wanderlust
searching for mineral specimens or mangled rusty treasures while exploring my home
state of Colorado. It’s my natural tendency towards objects with historical
significance that drives me to explore
re-creating the unique textures and rich patinas found in
ancient and aged objects.
I hope you’ll enjoy these examples of my
quest.
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At times I pursue a
feeling of age rather than a literal historical design. A botanical design roller
imprinted into brass pairs beautifully with with unusual ceramic drops
by
Petra Carpreau.
River tumbled copal,
landscape jasper and organic beads by Lorna Oosthuizen that
remind me of hypertufa pots.
Baltic Amber, acanthus
leaves and lampwork by Raida Disbrow combine into earrings that
look as if they might have been
excavated from Ancient
Pompeii.
Ancient faces adorned with fossil blastoids and Ethiopian opals.
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These earrings are from my “Ancient Hoard”
series. So named due to the
treatment of the metal. Ceramic fossils by Jill
Stoffregen.
And finally…”Jubilation Dance of Our Ancestors” from my “Fragments of Antiquities” series.
The legs were created from
fragments of
ancient Kievan Russ Viking
fibulas and rings. Ceramics by Georgia
Neumann and
Nadia Karapencheva.
I hope that you’ve enjoyed a peek at my ancient
inspired earrings.
Thank you for spending a
bit of your day with me.
More of my work can be
seen at my two online Etsy stores;
on my Instagram and
Pinterest pages
and on my blog.
I’d be delighted if you stop by and say hello.
