In the last few years Alda Saunders has become fascinated with the way fine art jewelry can combine the structural and textural effects found in architecture and sculpture and composition with the variety and subtlety of color found in painting.  She worked in silversmithing for a few years and then added the making of glass lampwork beads with a torch to her skills.  The results are one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces, each one a piece of art.  Often her jewelry has a theme, just as in a painting.

Sweeter On The Vine

Mouth-watering tomato fruit are still on the vine ready to pick. Major color contrast of red and green against mostly neutrals emphasizes the subject.

Working Boat Dock

Landing on an old boat dock up the BC coast, I found this pile of has line next to an empty work boat.

Sunflowers 3

Sunflowers 3 shows the same subject done in an entirely different medium, that of oil pastel with black gouache background, to form a more ‘drawn’ effect.

Winds of Change

Then the switch to whirling movement of the wind in autumn can be seen in “The Winds of Change.”

Sunflowers 2

one of a series of acrylic on canvas paintings about sunflowers growing in my garden

A Summer’s Eve

acrylic painting on canvas 32" x 40" late day scene of sailboats at an anchorage near Saltspring Island

Summer Wildflowers

The joy of summer wildflowers in a field, the bright, dry air, the endlessness of the days can all be found in such a painting as "Summer Wildflowers."