© Susan Field
I enjoy working with the rich textures and colors of bead embroidery, combined with embossed leather and unusual gemstones and fossils. I have a background as a painter, so I usually first paint my designs onto beading foundation, then create a beadwork bezel for the focal item. Then I will embroider the design - many of my pieces have 5000 or more individually stitched glass seed beads intermingled with gemstone beads. Recently I have been accenting my beadwork with embossed leather, which also provides a beautiful backing.