"I have always been attracted to miniature objects, and I love the idea of making and wearing these small works of art. I try to combine a modern sense of style and color with ancient techniques. I enjoy the interplay of colors and designs, the smooth feel of glass, and...like to play with fire."

 

Janice Peacock
Modern Glass Beads

Janice learned to make flameworked glass beads in 1992 from Brian Kerkvliet, and has been actively making beads ever since. She has studied with many of today's best bead makers and flameworkers, including Vittorio Costantini and Loren Stump. Janice has a Masters degree from U.C. Santa Barbara.

Janice's work has been displayed in several group shows nationally and internationally. She has exhibited her work in Denmark and Finland as part of the Contemporary Glass Beads from America exhibit, curated by Torbin Sode. Her beads and finished jewelry were featured in "California Glass Today" at the Fresno Art Museum in California, an invitational exhibit of California’s best beadmakers and glass artists in 1998. Her work was also displayed at the Society of Glass Beadmakers juried exhibit at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY, (1998) and Obsession: A Ten Year Affair with teh Bead (2002), which were juried exhibits sponsored by the International Society of Glass Beadmakers. Janice's work has been published in several books, including Beads of Glass: The Art and the Artists by Cindy Jenkins, 1000 Glass Beads by Lark Books, Design! by Steve Aimone, and Contemporay Glass Beads from America by Torbin Sode.

Janice teaches beginning and intermediate glass bead making at Public Glass in San Francisco, and travels nationally to teach intermediate and advanced glass bead making. In addition to her passion for flameworking, Janice has been a freelance instructor and technical training writer for the software industry for 15 years.

She is currently the Director of Education for the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB). Janice has been a featured speaker on several occasions for the Northern California Bead Society, as well as many other bead societies, at the California Glass Exchange in 1998 and 2002, and presented a demonstration national conference of the ISGB in 2002.

For more information Janice can be reached at jp@janicepeacock.com.

 

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