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Through
A Glass Onion's studio, operated by Wendy
Lees and her husband Anthony Hoy, is located
in the Byron Hinterlands, NSW, Australia.
The studio's design philosophy
sees a melding of contemporary jewellery
trends using traditional ethnic designs
and colours, from the cultures and places
Wendy and Anthony have visited Wendy as
a photographer working and living in Europe
for ten years, and Anthony as one of Australia's
foremost rural and Outback journalists.
The jewellery range is inspired
by their experiences of traditional methods
of art and design and the impressive skills
within the creative artisan communities
of countries including India, Africa, Bali
and Thailand not to mention the fabulous
sense of colour expressed by Australia's
own indigenous artists.
Their premise is that truly
beautiful designs originate from the simplest
of ideas, as evidenced by Through A
Glass Onion's incorporation of silver hoops
in their raw and unpolished form. These
are produced in our studio to complement
the brand's other primary elements - the
colourful palettes of Italian and American
glass, as well as recycled glass, and semi-precious
stone.
Our conviction is that
glass and sterling silver can generate the
same physical and spiritual reactions and
emotions as do precious gemstones and gold,
Wendy says. The jewellery potential of
glass - this cold, rigid and solid
material, that flows like thick honey when
worked in the kiln or flame - is unlimited.
Glass beading and kiln-forming
is a craft that represents 40,000 years
of history and draws from every major culture
and region of the world. Our objective
is no different, really, to that of the
Neanderthals who crafted the famous La Quina
pendants which predate the earliest known
figurative art from animal teeth and bone,
Anthony says. It is about the production
of durable ornaments of beauty, and about
striving to satisfy the special decorative
relationship that develops between a woman
and her beads.
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