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    Black Spirit Bear Pendant

    $425.00 CAD
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    Black Spirit Bear Pendant
    by Thomas McPhee Sculptor
    Pendant: 28mm x 32mm | Necklace: 17"

     Gaze upon this 'Ursus Americanus'!

    This magnificent obsidian-colored glassy black bear pendant has a glitzy diamond eye and carries a real golden nugget straight from the Great Canadian North.

    This wild and dazzling Spirit Bear pendant is created from Pate de Verre kiln cast crystal glass.  Pate de Verre's casting method is similar to the one for making jewelry from gold and silver. 

    Pate de verre, French for 'paste of glass', is a technique of pressing glass frits and crushed glass into a mold. It's tricky but produces brilliant kiln cast outcomes. Tiny frits give the method its lustrous appearance, and also allow for accurate inlays of various colors in the mold.

     

    “I want my carvings to feel as though they’ve always existed—only now revealed.”

    Sculptor Thomas McPhee

    Thomas McPhee is a Canadian sculptor renowned for his masterful gemstone carvings and kiln-cast glass sculptures. Largely self-taught, he refined his skills by studying European museum collections and developing his own techniques in the early 1980s. Working in precious and semi-precious gems, McPhee combines classical realism with mythic and archetypal themes, creating small-scale works collected worldwide.

    Artist Statement

    “The source of my inspiration in using gemstones as a primary vehicle for expression lies in their intrinsic qualities—permanence, beauty, purity, and inner light. These materials allow me to pursue a highly refined perfection of form, creating objects that feel timeless rather than transient. Whether working in precious stones or cast glass, I aim to carve sculptures that transcend the here and now and suggest a hopeful sense of the eternal.”

    Thomas McPhee

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