Saturday, September 24, 2011
AUTUMN DAYS BEGIN...A GLORIOUS TIME OF THE YEAR...
Welcome to Autumn...and bye-bye to summer....the back terrace is still blooming with wonderful colours and all the nurtured plants continue to give me simple pleasure ...each day I make the circuit..pinching a dead bud off here...admiring the lushness of the still bright green leaves there....
Maxi and Toffe join me on a warmer morning...while I have my tea, toast and newspaper...and I truly consider myself blessed....the stillness of morning let's me collect my toughts...and I face the day with re-newed energy.
Autumn is also the time when I REALLY start again to create some new designs for my necklaces. Just looking and touching the stones I have acquired fills me with inspiration...I like to create a mental image of what pieces will go together...what pendant I will use and then place all the major items into one closed box...to open and sort when I start on a new project.
Sometimes I have a design in mind...more often the stones dictate the 'look' and the final necklace is a product of changes and re-starting until it all feels and looks 'right'.
I am posting a few of the newer ones.....please contact me if you need more information , prices, etc.
Maxi and Toffe join me on a warmer morning...while I have my tea, toast and newspaper...and I truly consider myself blessed....the stillness of morning let's me collect my toughts...and I face the day with re-newed energy.
Autumn is also the time when I REALLY start again to create some new designs for my necklaces. Just looking and touching the stones I have acquired fills me with inspiration...I like to create a mental image of what pieces will go together...what pendant I will use and then place all the major items into one closed box...to open and sort when I start on a new project.
Sometimes I have a design in mind...more often the stones dictate the 'look' and the final necklace is a product of changes and re-starting until it all feels and looks 'right'.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
SPRING HAS ALMOST GONE...and SUMMER IS ALMOST HERE!!
Time to play 'catch-up'...where have the months gone/
Weeell...I have been really really busy!
First: I took space ( a large glass lit cabinet) on Notre Dame w in Montreal and filled it with lots of antiques...featuring many Staffordshire figures and pottery.
All the pieces had to be measured, inventoried, priced and ticketed before we could place them. The lovely Vivian was my great assistant and has been a major help in getting all this together.
Here are some pics showing what the finished ( and evolving) showcase looks like...by the way..sales have been quite good too!
Weeell...I have been really really busy!
First: I took space ( a large glass lit cabinet) on Notre Dame w in Montreal and filled it with lots of antiques...featuring many Staffordshire figures and pottery.
All the pieces had to be measured, inventoried, priced and ticketed before we could place them. The lovely Vivian was my great assistant and has been a major help in getting all this together.
Here are some pics showing what the finished ( and evolving) showcase looks like...by the way..sales have been quite good too!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
JOY MOOS DESIGNS/Ethnic Inspired Jewellry
JOY MOOS DESIGNS/ Ethnic Inspired Jewellry
Welcome to my Ethnic Inspired Jewellry Collection…featuring one -of -a- kind hand made necklaces.
All the jewellry has been designed and made by me.
As an art dealer ( for 40 years), I have experienced the excitement of discovery…whether it be in viewing a painting or a selection of magnificent beads.
So come along with me…and visit the countries where these gems have travelled on their journey to me. They have arrived on my doorstep from such far away lands as Afghanistan, Turkey, Africa, Nepal, Greece and Thailand.
View the collection and see how the beads, stones and pendants mix and compliment each other…
and how they become the creations that I present for your pleasure.
You will discover their beauty and treasure the uniqueness of each individual design.
Since these necklaces are personally designed, please feel free to contact me if you desire something “ just for you”. I will always try to oblige.
ARTINFO NEWS
ART MARKET/FAIRS
AUCTION REPORTS
LONDON—The red-hot Christie's evening sale of postwar and contemporary art on February 16 raced to $99,190,888 (£61,380,500), marking the highest London result in the category since June 2008 — the apex of the last art boom. The total annihilated Christie's $61.1 million result from the same sale last February.
The sale was powered in part by the previously unrecorded, six-foot-square Andy Warhol "Self Portrait" from 1967 that sold to Larry Gagosian for a staggering $17,441,892 (£10,793,250), over an estimate of £3-5 million. The sale featured 15 other offerings that broke the million pound mark, and 28 that hit over one million dollars.
| Rare Jewelry and Gauguin's Flowers Tempted Buyers Amid a Sea of Nautical Art in Palm Beach - ARTINFO The array of wares at last week's Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show drew Floridian crowds, and even Regis Philbin. |
The eighth annual Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show this year featured over 180 dealers of objects ranging from antique jewelry to textiles to American silver, the four-day fair drew an estimated 50,000 people.
How is the American Folk Art Museum, which has been struggling to ward off closure after repeatedly failing to make payments on the $32 million it borrowed for its current building, coping with all that stress? By going to Venice, of course. The Venice Biennale, that is, where the museum now plans to stage an off-site exhibition of work by African-American artists who are either self-taught or practice graffiti art.
Planned to open on June 1, the month-long exhibition will take place at the Fondacio dei Tedeschi, the New York Times reports, and is budgeted at $300,000-400,000.
For its part, the museum is now trying to raise money to cover the exhibition costs.
OHWOW, the New York art platform that has expanded over its three-year existence to encompass a Miami Beach bookstore and numerous gallery collaborations and pop-up shows around the country, is now giving in to the increasing pull of the burgeoning Los Angeles art scene by opening a new center in the City of Angels. The new space, located at 937 North La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood in an ivy-covered former laundromat, is being refurbished by artist Rafael de Cárdenas and will feature a gallery, a bookstore, and a shaded outdoor patio. It debuts on March 19 with a show by artist Scott Campbell.
Monday, February 21, 2011
WINTER IN MONTREAL
Here we are almost past February...and still snow on the streets and piled high on front lawns. Bitter cold..but the sun is shining..and while I look forward to Spring, I admit to being a confirmed Montreal -Winter lover!!
OK..easy for me to say..since I don't venture out EVEN if the temp is 80degrees and the sun is high!!
Well..not that bad ...but I am a slave to the computer (and the telly in the long winter days)
Been somewhat reclusive all my life...love my home..never bored...and not a great 'joiner'!
All that is true, yet I ran a gallery for many years...held gallery openings every month and mingled..well actually, I liked putting two people together and walking on. Not great at small talk.
Very great at long talk..one to one!!
OK..easy for me to say..since I don't venture out EVEN if the temp is 80degrees and the sun is high!!
Well..not that bad ...but I am a slave to the computer (and the telly in the long winter days)
Been somewhat reclusive all my life...love my home..never bored...and not a great 'joiner'!
All that is true, yet I ran a gallery for many years...held gallery openings every month and mingled..well actually, I liked putting two people together and walking on. Not great at small talk.
Very great at long talk..one to one!!
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