Diane Falkenhagen is best known for her one-of-a-kind mixed media jewelry. She embraces a risk-taking philosophy with art, incorporating more contemporary materials like corian, acrylic, resin and polymer clay into traditional fabricated metal forms.
A common theme for Falkenhagen is pictorial imagery created by the artist or borrowed from historical sources. She often distorts or manipulates the images before using them and a favorite material for image transfers is polymer clay (seen in the pictures here).
Many polymer clay artists incorporate metal into their polymer clay work. Turnabout is fair play. Falkenhagen incorporates polymer clay into her metal work with flair, creating elegant jewelry with an air of mystery.
See more Falkenhagen in the current issue of Metalsmith Magazine.
[Update 11/21/07: Read Cynthia Tinapple's post about Falkenhagen's work here.]
these are lovely, I like the mix of old and new…!