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BY LAYNE CHRISTENSEN /
HOW MANY designers can claim their isest work was created during the spin cycle?
Jewelry designer Juliet Nicoll can. and freely does. .
Before moving to Montreal last fall to attend Concordia’s studio arts program, the 22-year-old had
a studio set up in the laundry room of her family’s home on Eagle Ridge Drive.
With acetylene torch in hand and 20-ton press at her side, Nicoll crafts whimsical pieces out of sil-
_ver and brass that draw their i inspiration | from her quirky sense of style.
Mule earrings that sprout a bouquet of daisies
hint at a shoe fetish while peas-in-pod earrings
and pair-of-pears rings are the products
of a fruit and vegetable phase.-
A recent love affair with ’60s Flower
Power produced a field of glass and brass
sunflower chokers, necklaces and rings
and delicate silver daisy chains.
Sometimes even dime-store finds — a
Lilliputian cowboy from a toy train set or
a fat bumble bee froma pencil eraser —
} are cast in metal and worked into her
finely crafted designs.

Even her cross-Canada road wip
last. July has had some influence on
her designs.

Her latest rock ’n’ roll series was
inspired by the many bands she saw
on the road.. T-shirts. emblazoned with
crazy sayings like “Rock me”™ or the endearments “Honey”’and “Sugar” adorn silver disk rings
. on beaded-wire bands. Cherries, stars and bunny rabbits are other images that crop up along with
little tights and socks, bikinis and bathing suits, hearts and dragonflies.
“How cheesy can I-get?.” is one question this young designer, who honed her craft while
attending Vancouver Community College’s jewelry arts program, frequently
asks herself. “This gets out of control sometimes.” she admits
without a hint of guilt.
This sense of playfulness even manages to infiltrate her
schoolwork.
Back in Vancouver for the holidays, Nicoll reflected
on one studio assignment that got just a little out of
hand.
The freshman created an edible creation fur her
sculpture class: three heart-, star-. and flower-shaped
chocolate cakes covered in 3% pounds of pink icing’
‘ and several of her chunky Jewelry pieces. When she lit the can-
dles during the class critique, “full meltdown” occurred. The plastic candlehold-
PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH ' ers melted into a big, g gooey mass and a thick clowd of black smoke rose through
WEST VANCOUVER Jewelry designer Juliet Nicoll says school the air, prompting security guards to rush in and shut the whole operation down.
_ts teaching her how to have guilt-free fun. The Concordia studio “I, like, must be really warped,” she laughs.
arts student says ‘the only things she truly misses about the Nicoll’s designs are available at The Block, The Canadian Craft Museum and the Vancouver Art Gallery in’
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