Finding your own style as an artist.
Many years ago when I first began to create flame worked glass beads and jewelry I worried that as a new artist I didn't have a 'style'. I didn't have a body of work that someone might say 'oh, I know that artist!' I did not yet have a collection of pieces with an identity or a discernible similarity in each piece. A cohesiveness. I've since learned that acquiring a style of your own as an artist is a natural and certain evolution. I spent some of my growing up years on a ranch in the Upper Halfway area of the Peace country in British Columbia, Canada. We moved there while in my teens so I wasn't really crazy about being there at the time, yet there were things about it that I grew to love. We lived on 2400 acres of pristine land that sat next to the long and winding Halfway River. There was a natural spring of water that bubbled ..happily, it seemed to me, up out the ground on a hill above our house, even in the dead of winter! Like some gre