Artists

Ursula Raymann

Color Designer in Architecture

Contemporary Geometric Beadwork Team

Zurich, Switzerland

ursula.raymann@buntundgern.ch

http://www.buntundgern.ch

Statement

As an artist I'm especially interested in color, form and the interaction of the two. In my profession as a Color Designer in Architecture I'm working in a big scale. To work with the tiny little glass beads offers a completely different dimension. To be part of the international beadwork project 'Contemporary Geometric Beadwork', is a great honor and opened a new world. In my artwork I have the combination of brain, heart and hand which is very important for me.

Artworks

Image for entry 'kaleidocycle bangle'

kaleidocycle bangle

3 x 13 x 13 cm

Japanese precision glass cylinder beads and thread

2018

The Kaledocycle, a glass and thread version of a Bricard Linkage, was popularized by mathematician Doris Schattschneider and graphic artist Wallace Walker in the 1970s, when they converted tesselations by M.C. Escher into origami turning toys based on Raoul Bricard's chain of tetrahedra. It is beaded in peyote stitch, handmade by the Artist.
Image for entry 'Engelsgleich'

Engelsgleich

21 x 15 x 3 cm

Japanese precision glass cylinder beads and thread

2019

Additional info

The figurine is made of seven hyperbolic paraboloids in different sizes, following the Fibonacci sequence. It can be folded in different ways: it becomes almost flat folded vertically and 3D if folded horizontaly. It is beaded in peyote stitch, handmade by the Artist.