Occasions! welcomes exciting new jewelry artist Diana Christiansen from Florida. Her bracelets, pendants and earrings are hand made with anodized aluminum. Anodized aluminum is very light weight, maintenance free and will not tarnish.
Diana Christiansen's hand dyed and texutred metal pendant
Diana’s career spans decades and includes everything from painting and printmaking to sculpting and fabric design. Her contemporary jewelry collection owes its inspiration to the shapes, patterns, and colors of modern art and architecture.
An electrochemical process is employed to dye the metal and achieve the many different colors seen in her designs. Once the aluminum is dyed and sealed, the color becomes permanent and is part of the metal itself. Diana then uses a photo-etch process to remove some of the surface color leaving behind a pattern. Anodized aluminum cannot be soldered. Individual pieces of aluminum are combined by riviting, drilling tiny holes
Diana Christiansen's hand dyed and textured metal earrings
and making use of miniature nuts and bolts!
