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The Creators of Got All Your Marbles? Interchangeable Jewelry
Lisa StotskaArtist Lisa Stotska was born in Washington, DC in 1956. She studied Advertising at the University of Maryland, then Graphic and Packaging Design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.For years she worked for other graphic design firms, doing Mattel Barbie doll packaging and Toyota Motorboat engine graphics while living in LA. In 1986 she moved to Tucson and developed her own clientelle, creating countless logo designs and catalogs for other companies. Around this same time, she started drawing and painting as a way to balance her desire to channel her creative talent into her own passions instead of working for other people. Her artwork began at first with chalk pastel, and has developed over the years into mixed media work including oil stick, acrylic, prisma colored pencils and sometimes even collage. She has a passion for color, feeling she has an innate understanding of it and of the importance of having no fear when it comes to color. Sometimes her artwork is realistic, but always with a definite flair for color. Sometimes the work is more abstract, of an internal or feeling nature; turmoil; beauty; grace, always expressed with motion and color. She looks forward to spending more time working on her art in the future, as Got All Your Marbles? becomes more independent, requiring less of her time. |
William A. SkilesJeweler & sculptor William A. Skiles was born in Houghton, Michigan in 1951. He is a self-taught artist and has worked as a jeweler since 1967. His forte is wax carving, creating fabulous tiny things initially out of wax. Using the lost wax process, the wax original is cast, and becomes whichever metal is chosen. William has chosen the medium of metal as a finished product because of the permanence of the material.William spent years being an on-staff goldsmith at a local gold and diamond jewelry store. Around 1998, he and his wife became committed to figuring out how to earn a living themselves. He initially started out by selling jewelry, being a relatively easy product to earn a living with. As the years have gone by, and as Got All Your Marbles? has taken off, he is now working larger and larger, creating sculptures that are not just jewelry anymore. He loves to tinker, to take something apart and put it together to help him understand how it works and how to improve it. It also gives him new ideas. To illustrate his love of tinkering: When he bought a home in 1996, he had 11 cars and a tow truck which had to be housed on the property. From early on he saw cars as sculptures. He enjoys finding a good buy, improving it and then turning it around for a profit. He has always had the ability to see the potential in everything. |