We were featured in our local lifestyle magazine. Read about our collaboration with Z-Pots on “A Cup of Wonderful” benefitting the 22q Foundation in honor of my late son Ryan.

https://issuu.com/lakenormancurrents/docs/lnc_issue_1121/22

Kristen Baird

From the mountains of Virginia and hills of Tennessee to the coast of Georgia, Kristen’s designs pay homage to the waters, landscapes, and flora that bring to life the scenes of the South that Kristen has called home.

In a time where mass manufacturing is predominant, Kristen and her team utilize and preserve traditional metalsmithing skills, as they delicately and precisely craft each piece by hand in the Kristen’s Savannah-based studio.

Using sterling silver, recycled 18K gold, and ethically sourced gemstones, Kristen’s jewelry is full of color and texture with juxtaposing forms both geometric and fluid, as though the designs might have sprung organically from the natural world.

If you haven't seen any of her work, please come in and see what all the recognition is all about. You'll be glad you did.

Houston Llew Spiritiles

Houston Llew started his venture inside a hot garage in Atlanta in the summer of 2008. A combined vision for art and an eternal optimism turned a dreary economic situation into an opportunity to deliver a beautifully handmade art product. Today, Houston makes Spiritiles out of an expanding art studio near downtown Atlanta.

Spiritiles are part of the evolving story about wall art enameling. Houston traces his lineage back to Fred Uhl Ball, an artist and teacher in the mid-1970’s who dreamt of glass on metal murals and brought them to life. He took a medium focusing on small enameling techniques for jewelry and experimented in glass and metal to create wall artwork.

Through strange and fated opportunity, Houston Llew met Zingaro, who mentored Houston in enameling techniques. Through their collaboration, combining the medium with the best industrial design they could find and Houston’s love to explain things by quoting famous authors, Spiritiles were brought to life.

SID DICKENS MEMORY BLOCKS

Sid Dickens Memory Blocks have been handmade in Vancouver, Canada since 1995 and are highly collected internationally.

Interactive and timeless, the collection captures pieces of history as tangible, enchanting, collectible art with meaning.

Initially trained as a sculptor, Sid Dickens was quickly distinguished in the early ‘90s for his groundbreaking, unconventional, and prolific Memory Blocks. Describing himself as extremely motivated and a relentless beholder, Sid continues to take inspiration from his travels and constant research around the world. With numerous adoring fans and celebrity collectors like Sir Elton John, Liv Tyler, Bono, Sting, and Phil Collins his name and unique Memory Blocks are recognized worldwide.

As one of the largest retailers in the United States, we endeavor to stock the entire ​CURRENT collection and dozens of RETIRED tiles. Call us if you are looking for a particular piece and let us delight you.

ZPots Studio

"We create together. The work is transcendent, encompassing a beautiful state of being." Each highly textured, individualized ceramic piece created at Zpots Studio begins with a beautiful chocolate clay body. Artists Noelle VanHendrick and Eric Hendrick throw every piece by hand, then decorate each one with slip to create a textured, one-of-a-kind surface. The artists view each Zpot as a unique individual that is part of a family. The glaze colors of earth, forest, and water remain consistent, but the spontaneous line drawings that decorate each piece will vary. A ZPots Studio goal is working toward a renewable future, and with this in mind, the electric kilns in the Zpots Studio are powered by Vermont Cow Power, with electricity generated by the surrounding Vermont farms.

Byers McCurry Studio

Holden McCurry began making the first few prayer towers in 2001 and has since developed them with Ed Byers over the years to incorporate new and distinct architectural forms, symbols, organic imagery and color variations. 

Included inside each tower is a fold of paper for writing down messages or prayers of one's choice - giving a special purpose with meaning for each sculpture.

All of the collaborative sculptures are hand built and hand painted. With many different textures, forms, drawings, colors and symbols used, no two are ever identical.