NEILE COOPER
ABOUT:
I create unique and colorful jewelry using real butterfly wings. (The butterflies are farmed and collected after their natural death.) I turn these fragile beauties into heirloom pieces, by pressing them in hand-cut glass and encasing them with a silver alloy. This work began over ten years ago when I found a monarch butterfly dead in my yard. It was just so beautiful and so delicate so I wanted a way to preserve and keep it. The techniques and skills that I had been using in my stained glass work led me to much experimentation and evolution.