Apple Series Earrings - Sapphire Blue

Sapphire blue and pale aquamarine glass earrings featuring fragments of 24K gold leaf and a floral murrine. These lightweight earrings are finished with threaded sterling silver caps and ear wires. The beads have been annealed in a kiln for strength and durability.

Glass, 24K gold leaf, sterling silver
Earrings: 45mm long
Bead: 14mm wide

Natalie Borghese is a Canadian glass artist. Formerly a practicing architect, she began working with glass in 2015. This collection of flame-worked beads is inspired by the flowering apple trees in her garden and explores ideas of lightness and liminality. Handmade using soft glass and 24K gold leaf, she approaches each bead like a watercolour painting, layering washes of transparent colour, delicate floral murrine, and fragments of gold to create little worlds of shimmering light. 
Winner of the Glass Beadmakers UK Newcomer Award (2017), her work is featured in The Flow Magazine’s Nature Gallery (Spring 2018); The Flow Magazine’s 14th Annual Gallery of Women in Glass (Winter 2018); and, GBUK Flame Magazine (January 2019).