Loretta Lam’s sophisticated jewelry is big, bright, and colorful. Large polymer clay beads are decorated and arranged to create warm, modern, highly wearable pieces. The beads are created one at a time by the millefiori process, with a delicious, natural color palette. Sheets and snakes of different colors of clay are stacked, wrapped and combined to make logs or loaves of pattern, from which slices are taken and applied to a base bead.
Lam says, “My jewelry evokes nature’s bounty … wild grapes bursting on the vine, fall leaves blowing in the breeze or acorns scattered on the woodland floor.” We think there’s a touch of a Moroccan spice bazaar in her colors and patterns, too.
“Raspberries in May”: polymer clay beads; 24″L
Carmel, NY 10512;Jewelry
