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Introduction, Hello from me !

Photograph of Lisa Reeve in floral dress smiling

Hi,

Thank you for stopping by and reading this!

I am Lisa, addicted to all things creative, lover of free motion embroidery and drawer of flowers.

I have been sewing since a very young age and started making my own clothes before I had left high school. Always rushing to get something finished before I could go out to the local disco that evening. Fairly new to drawing flowers even though I did go to Art school, I wasn’t much interested in plants at that age.

As you can probably tell by the word ‘disco’  I am a nana, entering the wonderful world of internet selling. It is bewildering but I am learning something new every day. In my naivety I believed you make pretty things and guess what lovers of pretty things see them …. magic! So, I have learnt it takes a lot more than that. So I am embracing Instagram and Facebook, making a few mistakes along the way, but like I said learning and enjoying it, so please follow me if you can.

http://instagram.com/lisareevedesigns_

My hand is being held by The British Craft House, guiding me though this new adventure.

And take a look at my shop if you can, its full of very pretty things!

Lisa x

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February 2024

It’s February 2024 and Dangles HQ quite frankly needs tidying up and a bit of a kick-start to get the creative flow going again.  

I wish I could Dangle all the time but sadly, that’s not an option at this point.  So for now I continue to work full-time and work on all things wire in my spare time.  Until fairly recently, this has meant that wire twisting has very much been on the back burner, although I did have a small flurry leading up to Christmas 2023 when there were some markets to attend and stock to prepare for those events.

In effort to get things moving for 2024 I have re-opened the shop after a long hiatus and am slowly listing some pieces for sale.

So far, there are some reel bouquets, place settings a couple of bee-themed items and a piece of framed wire art.

I love the reel bouquets – each one is different, there will never be two the same so if you purchase one of those, you can be sure of owning a truly unique piece.  I like bright colours and am never one to avoid a bit of a clash of colours if I can.

The Bee my Valentine hanging decorations are fun as well.  I do only have four of those available, unless I can find any more of the red glass beads in my stash!

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Bevart designs and ‘Wabi Sabi’ a Japanese philosophy

What inspires to me to make my jewellery pieces.

Hello, I am Beverley from Bevart designs.

I am an artist that has been inspired to make jewellery from my love of art. So in short, my jewellery creations have been inspired from my artworks. 

I love wood and colour and have combined the two elements to make beautiful art inspired jewellery for you to wear. 

Whilst doing my degree back in 2008 whooooa! long time ago.

I was fascinated by making something that was quite ordinary very beautiful, I incorporated copper pipe and wire and velvet fabrics to bring my 3-D relief paintings and sculptures to life.

 

The photo is a piece that I created for my fine art degree, I embedded a large ornate mirror, red velvet and copper pipe. This work was made in response to self Indulgence and decadence.

 

Artwork – 5ft x 3ft plaster, paint, velvet, copper pipe, mirror and varnish.

Entitled  – ‘Indulge’

SOLD

 

Fast forward to now, in my fine artwork I use gold leaf and mark making using unconventional tools. My ethos in my creative life is ‘Making the ordinary beautiful’ a few years ago I discovered WabiSabi a Japanese philosophy and way of life.

 The Japanese people embrace things that would be normally deemed as useless or boring or very ordinary, old, cracked or broken, they fix and make beautiful. I am fascinated with that as a thing in its self, so the way that I use WabiSabi and making the ordinary beautiful into my artwork, is that I embrace things that could possibly go wrong, like, unintentional marks, the drips from the paint the knots in the wood!

I fix good with love, polishing and gold/silver and rose gold leaf.

The pink and green artwork photograph is a painting that I made a couple of years ago, I have used wax and mark making to create this ‘Indian Summer’ inspired piece. We went on holiday to Goa, whilst on a market trip we met a lady selling the most amazing fabrics, she was wearing the most exquisite sari, my painting was inspired by this trip.

 

Art work – wax, oil paints and gold leaf, painted on board.

Entitled – ‘Indian Summer’

 

This is just a little insight into the jewellery making and the things that inspire me to be creative.

Bevart designs creations! are inspired by my paintings, travel, and WabiSabi.

 

Thankyou Beverley x