Every two weeks, we will have a new artist featured on our front page. For the next two weeks, it is Lesley McFarland. You can view the full page for any artist by clicking on the link to the right.
A bit about Lesley from her page:
Lesley McFarland
Lesley’s beautiful beads have had a cosmopolitan influence! She was born in London, but was brought up mostly in the Far East as her parents were in the Army. Lesley lived out in Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as Germany and all over the UK. She has just moved to Gloucester in order to have her own studio instead of using a friends place. A trip to Stourbridge Bead fair in 2005 set Lesley on the beadmaking journey, although she had made jewellery previous to this. Studying with Kate Drew Wilkinson at Plowden and Thompson she soon started making her own beads. Lesley has kept up her education, having studied silversmithing, including enamelling, and taken beadmaking classes with Barbara Mason, Kate Drew-Wilkinson, Diana East, Loren Stump and Dora Schubert.Her main area of interest at the moment is metals on glass, mostly silver and copper; she also love to use enamels. Lesley also makes silver core beads and has started to use Art Clay Silver to make her own findings to decorate the beads with. Says Lesley: “There are so many different techniques and areas of interest, my next projects are bead painting and I have just started electroforming. In particular I like to manipulate the glass to “paint” a picture. This is a challenging technique and I think my Fairy and Geisha beads demonstrate this.”
See more of Lesley’s work on her website at www.lesleymcfarland.com
