The annual holiday show and sale was a huge success!
Thanks to all who joined us for this festive event.

Thank you for visiting us at the "Artisans in Bloom" Show & Sale

You missed a fabulous opportunity
to meet Natalie MacKnight
at the "Featured Artist" Event
at the Nashoba Valley Winery on
Sunday, April 19th from 3:30 - 5:00pm
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her fabulous creations were on display from
April 6 - May 3

 

 



Some of the Bolton Artisans created "heart" pieces for a
special wine and chocolate reception on Feb 8, 2009 from 3:30 - 5:00
at the Nashoba Valley Winery



 

 

Thanks to all who joined us our at our


 

 

2008 Art Theme Exhibit: WATER
Bolton Senior Center
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - Friday September 19, 2008


This year members of the Bolton Artisans Guild were invited
to create art work inspired by a guild art theme challenge "WATER".

Several pieces inspired by this theme are on a traveling exhibit.
The exhibit includes: art works in pottery, polymer clay,
felt, collages, paintings and jewelry

 

 

The Bolton Artisans were at
the Nashoba Valley Winery on
September 13, 2008

 Members of the Bolton Artisans Guild provided on-going
demonstrations in fiber, beading, polymer clay, pottery and more.
We had a fun day chatting with visitors and explaining
 the various techniques used to create and develop our creations.

Directions to Nashoba Valley Winery

 


"Be-Jeweled"
by the Bolton Artisans Guild
A Bolton Artisans Featured Artist Jewelry Event


August 4 - September 7, 2008
Nashoba Valley Winery
Bolton, Massachusetts

Vintage and contemporary style jewelry including:
Laura Burke's knit necklace, wool felt & origami earrings
 Brenda Evan’s “summer confection” of vintage style necklaces
Amy Crawley’s polymer clay pendants and pins
Verjik Abramian Martin’s eclectic jewelry
Chris Sterling’s delicately woven seed bead bracelets
Carol Ehrlich’s inticately crocheted 700 seed bead roll-on bracelets



 

Featured Artists

The Bolton Artisans Guild is proud to introduce our "Featured Artists" events.

Meet the featured artist(s) and view their artistic works at the Nashoba Valley Winery. Schedule (tentative):

  • May 2008 - Amy Moran - Watercolors
  • August 2008 - "Be-Jeweled" - Verjik Abramian-Martin, Laura Burke, Amy Crawley, Carol Ehrlich, Brenda Evans and Chris Sterling
  • November 2008 - Amy Crawley - Polymer Clay
  • December 2008 - Jeanne Fanger
  • February 2009 - Verjik Abramian-Martin
  • April 2009 - Natalie MacKnight - Books and Collage

 

 

Prior Events

2007 Art Theme Exhibit: FIRE
Bolton Senior Center
Tuesday September 11th - Thursday September 20th


This year members of the Bolton Artisans Guild were invited
to create art work inspired by a guild art theme challenge "FIRE".

Several pieces inspired by this theme are on a traveling exhibit.
The exhibit includes: art works in pottery, polymer clay, wood
and felt; paintings, necklaces, bracelets and rings.

Bolton Artisans Guild members have their work on permanent display
and for sale at the Nashoba Valley Winery in Bolton.

Verjik Abramian Martin has painted a picture which evokes a childhood memory of a festival of fire (Chahrshanbeh Suri) in which the children dance around and jump over the fires to stop the sun from setting. The festival of Norouz follows which marks the arrival of spring and the revival of nature.

 

Laura Burke imagined a volcanic mountain created with natural and dyed wool fibers needle-felted together. Natural brown sheep fibers were used to create the basic mountain shape and dyed fibers were added to create depth and the fiery volcanic flow.
       

Amy Crawley has crafted a Fire Spirited Messenger Art Doll. The Fire Spirit Messenger represents one of the five elements: fire. Fire represents the planet Mars, the south summer, and it governs the heart. Fire also represents creativity and passion. Its color is red. Its motion is upward, hence the flames dancing upward on her body.

    


Brenda Evans remembered the mesmerizing beauty of tiny dancing flames in the fireplace and recreated them in a necklace using gold twisted wire and Swarovski crystals in warm glowing shades of yellow, red and orange.

    

 



As far back as Sheryl Evans can remember she has had an appreciation for the solar system, and respect for the Sun for all its heat and power. Therefore she chose to design a "Solar Flare" necklace. This necklace is comprised of Sterling Silver, Fine Silver, 24kt Gold, and Copper and made completely by hand with the aid of a hammer, mill, saw and solder

 

  

Peter Vincent was inspired by some pieces of wood in his workshop and chose figured reddish wood shaped like a pyramid for the base, topped by a figured maple top with a live edge in one section that reminded him of the colors/patterns in molten lava.

  
 

Carol Ehrlich hand-crochets bracelets with Japanese glass beads. She strings and crochets approximately 750 beads one at a time, forming a cylinder of beads that she then sews together invisibly. The bracelets aren't elastic but have "give" in them because of the crocheting, allowing the bracelets to simply roll over your wrist.

Chris Sterling has always been drawn to flames, either in the fireplace, or the campfire out in the deep woods. It may have something to do with growing up as the daughter of a NYC fireman. She used this opportunity to try out new software to make the design in the colors of flames to create her peyote stitched Ring of Fire.

  
   

Gayle Joseph decided to use fire itself to decorate pottery. To do this the items are placed in a pit or a barrel and are burned for a few hours and then left to smolder for a day or longer. The surface is then scrubbed and hand polished. The vessel was burned primarily with walnut scraps from Peter Vincent's workshop which imparted the beautiful black tone. The tiles were burned surrounded by shavings from Paul Casco's workshop that included many different rare woods - and possibly some brass shavings which may have caused the green flashing on the tiles.