Linnea has been designing wearable art for about 10 years

	Artist in Focus
	Linnea Lockwood - Gambino

About the Artist:

Linnea has been designing wearable art for about 10 years. She attended SUNY Westchester in Valhalla, NY where she was an honor student in Applied Art. She has won numerous awards and competitions for her designs and illustrations over the past 20 years even an International Award for designing miniature Art on fingernails. She designed print ads and greeting cards for clients such as Pepsi Cola, Quantum Technology and SUNY Westchester. She recently received a Merit Award for her designs at the 2003 Artsplosure Festival in Raleigh, NC and she is also a finalist in the national competition, “Bead Dreams” which is sponsored by Bead & Button Magazine. Look for her feature article in the upcoming October Issue of Bead & Button – Available at Barnes & Noble and Borders in late August 2004.

Linnea's work also appears in Bead & Button-October 2003, Bead Dreams Special edition-Spring 2004, Art Jewelry Magazine, November 2004. Look for another feature article in Bead & Button February 2005 Issue- available in late December 2004 at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Michaels, A.C.Moore and Joann Fabrics.

In 1993 Linnea opened Grand Street Bead Company in Croton-On-Hudson, NY and before moving to North Carolina Sold the store in late 1997 to her best customer, Jill Decrenza. The business grew and several years ago Jill moved the store to a new location expanding the retail space to 5 times the original size and changing the name to reflect the new location to Beyond Beads. Additionally in 2000 Jill and her sister Kim became partners and now own and operate the business together. Please check out their website by simply clicking on the link above!

About the Jewelry:

Her work is all original and completely done by hand. She has designed several popular lines of jewelry that are available at specialty stores and at Arts and Crafts shows in the North Carolina and New York area.

She uses only the finest materials in her work including specialty lamp work beads, semi-precious stones, vintage buttons, Swarovski crystal, pewter buttons, sterling silver and gold-filled findings. Many of the beads and treasures that she weaves into each piece have stories of their own and are gathered from around the world. Each piece is created with positive energy and thoughts that will hopefully transfer to each new owner as it brings them the true spirit developed by the designer!

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