Jan Durand | Jewelry
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Q&A with Jan
1. What is your chosen medium?
In 2008 my daughter made a coil beaded bracelet and gave it to me. I began designing beaded bracelets and that evolved into designing necklaces.
2. How did you start your career in art?
The color, shape, texture or sparkle of the bead or gemstone.
3. What informs your art?
The color, shape, texture or sparkle of the bead or gemstone.
4. What jobs you have worked other than as a professional artist?
Factory work, chambermaid, waitress, nanny, nurse aid, restaurant prep, secretary, and raised a family.
5. What questions do you ask yourself when starting to work?
Will I have enough components to make this design work.
6. Do you have a quote that’s important to you displayed in your studio? If so, what is it?
No. Collected art is in my work area.
7. Which artist (living or not) would you most like to invite for dinner? What would you serve?
Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Chicken bastilla; salad of satsumas, roasted beets, pecans, and farmers cheese; apricot and cherry clafoutis.
8. What has been your most unusual request for your art?
In Napa, CA a woman had lost her 2 grown children to illnesses. She asked that I use their birthstone gems (garnet and citrine) and her 2 small gold rings for a necklace to wear everyday.
9. What music are you listening to these days?
A mix of just about everything on Spotify.
10. What is on your nightstand?
Swedish folk art candelabra, vintage lamp, stained glass box, magazine articles.
“I see color all the time, in flowers, frescoes, fabrics, rusty objects, or the bead itself. This starts my desire to capture it in a design. And I love seeing which necklace a person will choose and try on. It comes alive.”
About Jan
Jan moved to Hendersonville from Napa, California in 2015. She started designing jewelry in Rhode Island in 2008, when she decided to learn more about jewelry design after a daughter gave her a coil beaded bracelet. From those early beginnings Jan has developed her own style, making what one collector called “irresistible jewelry.” She’s become passionate about color, texture, shape, and sparkle. Her beautiful one-of-a-kind pieces combine what she loves about the varied components being used.
