Tanya Lown (Day 2)
Tanya Lown
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Primary Medium: Jewelry |Joyería
About the Artist
Sometimes we have two major interests, one we pursue for a living and one we pursue for our soul. That was the case for Tanya Lown, who spent her career in education: in banking as a program development officer and division training manager, as a teaching associate while pursuing her Ph.D. in French, and as a high school teacher and department manager. Little did she realize at the time, that the creativity required to develop learning materials would translate to creating art. Once retired, she excitedly returned to her childhood interest in art and silversmithing. Tanya feels so fortunate to have found a rewarding second career. She fell in love with manipulating silver into beautiful wearable art and has worked to continually perfect her craft. Tanya has received almost as many honors for her work in silver as she did as a teacher and creator of training programs. In addition to many First Place awards and Best in Class, she has also found recognition in a variety of publications. Her range of her work can be seen at the Leaping Lizard Gallery in Tucson, the Cactus Wren Gallery in Tubac, and the Freebird Shoppe in Catalina.- https://www.tanyalowndesigns.com
How to Purchase
Visitors to the gallery can make purchases using credit cards or cash.About this Event
On Saturday Tanya Lown will demonstrate how she makes simple silver components for her sterling silver jewelry and on Sunday she will demonstrate how she finishes her leather bookmarks. Complementing her sterling and fine silver jewelry at the galley, she will have additional silver and leather items for sale. The gallery will be open to the public where one can see a variety of art such as ceramic, glass, leather, wood, repurposed musical instruments, wire weaved and beaded jewelry, chain maille and dichroic glass jewelry, photography, encaustic, acrylic, digital art, paintings in water color, prisma colored pencils, and acrylic paint. Additional members of our gallery will be on hand to show and explain their art and processes
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About the Studio
City of Tucson Ward: Ward 2
Pima County District: District 4
About the Art
About the Process
The timeless beauty of nature inspires Tanya to create in slver, leather, and occasionally in copper and bronze. Fascinated by the beauty of the natural world: plants, mountains, sea, natural stones and pearls, she aims to reflect a uniqueness but also a one of a kind modern elegance and sophistication in each piece she creates. As a reflection of nature, her creations range from the simply elegant to statement pieces. Because she lives in Arizona, much of the desert and mountains is depicted in her art. She keeps a journal in which she draws her inspirations and uses her drawings to create templates for use in her creations. As she fabricates her jewelry pieces, Tanya uses a combination of sterling silver sheet metal and wire, argentium, as well as fine silver and sterling silver metal clay Occasionally she creates in copper or bronze, but usually in combination with leather. After several years creating in silver, Tanya added leather to her artist interest. To perfect her skill, she took classes in preparing the leather, etching, tooling, coloring, and finishing. Due to her love for plants, mountains, animals and birds, these have found their way to inspiring the pictures on her bookmarks, keychains, and journals.Explore Nearby Studios
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