About my Beadwork

With beads, wire and thread I aim to create models that don't just look like animals, they feel and move like them as well. Coming from a scientific background biological accuracy is very important to me, and as bead animals are very tactile creations I feel their joints, weighting and skeletal structure are as important as their appearance when breathing life into them. 

Poison dart frogs are a group of very small tropical amphibians with dramatic colours and patterns - some of which are even smaller than their bead versions! The bright colours and memorable patterns serve to warn poential predators of their extreme toxicity, an evolutionary strategy known as aposematism.