RHODA TEPLOW

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Color, color, color plus human interest stories! How can I go wrong?  Beads beg me to pick them up and demand that I make something out of them: earrings, necklaces, and  bracelets. I thrill in combining Tibetan beads with African beads with Japanese and Balinese beads. To know that other hands have labored to make them, hands that have been burnt by the flames, cut by the glass or blackened by the polishing. So much labor is in one bead and so many stories and history are attached to them.

I have the privilege and luck to be able to combine them all together to make something beautiful and to travel to foreign countries to collect them.  And what a thrill it is to see a man or woman proudly wearing one of my pieces!  Their personal style enhanced by the beauty of the beads they wear.
Jewelry studio open by appointment. Call 707 964 2787.