Ginny Brotherton's artwork is a creation of her love of the outdoors, where
the gifts of the land are as close as one's hand and yet as far as one
can see; where you scrape away the earth's crust to reveal nature's beauty.
With the rocks she finds, she can only enhance its glory, but with glass
she hopes to capture an essense of the radiance that surrounds her.
Jalbone' is the name of Virginia (Ginny) Brotherton's business. It is an
acronym for Just A Little Bit of Nature, etc. Ginny's love of rockhunting--finding,
cutting, polishing rocks was the impetus to her learning wire-wrapping
in 1993 at the WM. Holland School of Lapidary Arts. Since then she
has taught classes in Dallas, Ft. Worth and other locales. In 2002,
she became a certified Precious Metal Clay Instructor and has taken several
classes on fusing glass, including a "Painting with Frit" class at Bullseye
Glass Co. in Portland in 2006. Today, Ginny incorporates all three
of these endeavors in her work, inspired by the incredible light, vistas,
sunsets and people of the Big Bend region where she now resides.
Below
are some samples of Ginny's hand-made jewelry.
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