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Captivating, raw, eye catching stones, in elaborate sterling silver and gold settings, Lilly Barrack’s jewelry is artistic in form combining geometric shapes. Her extensive travel and art background resulted in cross-cultural influences with Africa playing a major role.

Lilly Barrack Herkimer and 24k Gold Ring

Herkimer diamonds, luscious green peridots, lavender amethysts and perfect pearls, find them at occasions! by design.

Lilly Barrack_Citrine, Herkimer Diamond and Sterling Silver Earrings

Lilly Barrack Herkimer Diamond, 14K Gold, Sterling Silver Earrings

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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.

Diana Christiansen's hand dyed and textured metal earrings

and making use of miniature nuts and bolts!

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Peacock Spiral by Carol Estes - Acrylic on Canvas

Movement, depth and intensity mark popular Southwest artist, Carol Estes’s, modern paintings. Each of her pieces has a beautiful story told with vivid colors, textures and weight. They are all one-of-a-kind. They are thought-provoking and dynamic. Her collection is being showcased at occasions! by design located on  Main ST., in the heart of Scottsdale Arts District.

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Edith Robertson Beads

Edith lives in Chicago IL and hand makes beautiful beads with the finest metals such as nickel, sterling silver and gold. She combines these metals by soldering making them into married metals. Her inspirations range from many sources like nature, sculpture, fabric, stones and found objects. She does not plan a piece but plays with the metal and stone until she arrives at what seems to be a satisfactory solution.

All of her pieces are hand made and one-of-a-kind. We showcase a large variety of her jewelry. Her sterling silver beads work well as a solitaire or joined with two or even five. These elegant necklaces make beautiful gifts for others or to add to your own art jewelry collection. We are now located on Main Street in the heart of the Scottsdale Arts District, open seven days a week.

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Black and Red Glass Pendant

We are pleased to introduce Goldenflow glass lighting pendants. Each lighting pendant is hand crafted, mouth blown, unique, and the perfect fusion of functionality and art.

The swirling pattern created by the fusion of color gives the pendants a unique depth and dimension that will make them a beautiful focal piece even when not lit.

You can choose between the lighting pendants we have in-store or they can be custom ordered to match the color scheme of your home or office.

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Glass Bracelet by Kevin O'Grady

Join us March 11th for the Glass Act Festival ArtWalk, featuring  glass artists; Kevin O’Grady and Elodie Holmes. Kevin O’Grady is known throughout the U.S. and Japan as the most exciting and talented glass bracelet and marble maker today. Kevin’s Pyrex bracelets, marbles and Splash of Glass collections are both high-tech and artisitc. Each piece is a signed, one of a kind, unique work of art.

Elodie Holmes creates sculpture, jewelry, ornaments, and ornamental furnishings such as vases, bowls, paperweights and aroma lamps using a process called Liquid Light. This process involves working molten glass in an intense torch flame of light. Each piece whether a vase, paperweight or ornament has beautiful colors as well as a delicate dancing figure.

Kevin O’Grady will be here Thursday March 11th, to explain his process and technique. Elodie Holmes new line of vases, figurines and paperweights will be on display.

We are open seven days a week at our new location on Main street in the Scottsdale Downtown Arts District. Come join us for the ArtWalk and visit our new location.

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Marcia Sednek's Pedestal Vase and Flowers

 Sculpted wire mesh, found objects, and antique tins make up Marcia Sednek’s flower arrangements and whimsical dresses. Sednek entices the viewer with creative and amazing points of view.

The colors of Chrysen Spreng’s hand wheeled pottery resembles Sedona’s rusty red rocks and golden sand. Her pieces are not only  unique and vividly colored, but also functional and durable pieces that make excellent accents and serving pieces to enhance your table for any occasion. 

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Antique glass beads, typewriter keys, barbed wire, bicycle chain, old keys and washers and nuts comprise Kim Mason’s eclectic jewelry collection. Based out of New Mexico Mason recycles antique and mixed metal objects and assembles them into gorgeous, creative and lively pieces of jewelry such as pins, earrings and rings. Our new collection is very creative and sure to please all styles!

Come and enjoy our new collection! Open seven days a week at our new location on Main Street in Scottsdale’s Art District.

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Jeannie Sellmer "Short Story 1" Oil on Board

Based out of New Mexico, Jeannie Sellmer is an abstract and landscape painter. Her medium is oil on board. When creating her paintings her guiding elements are color, value, shape and texture which evoke both a sense of energy and contemplation. Her paintings invite the viewer to engage in the visual field with a sense of meandering exploration and open interpretation.

The evolution for her paintings is derived from six ideas; color combinations, geometric forms, nature, music, memories and sensations. She brings all of these elements into her paintings through a layering technique. Each layer changes the painting but leave traces of what was originally there.

Her overall approach is to be spontaneous, working the surface while creating an interplay of sublet transitions of color and texture resulting in a complex and nuanced surface of color harmony and balance.

Addie Draper - "Bosque Fall Tree"

A new artist to occasions! Addie Draper who also lives in New Mexico on forty acres of land. Her focus is landscape and after many years of working with pastels she is exploring oils. She is intrigued by the possiblities for texture and expressive movements with oil.

Her inspiration is based from potent moments in her life usually occuring in solitude. She is also inspired by magnificent views of broad landscapes as well as beautiful close ups of a tiny section of the world. The textural qualities of oil paints lead to the beautiful richness of expression that she uses to help translate the experience of a place.

In her work she tries to creat poetry versus a direct representation, suggesting rather than stating. Overall she wants the viewer to take away their own interpretations to create their own narrative.

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