Village Squire, 1979-12, Page 20jewellery in her part of the gallery. It means that even after the
Tut exhibition moves on, Ms. Bohdanetzky's jewellery will still
be on sale at the gallery.
Her background in theatre obviously helped her when it came
to reproducing Egyptian jewellery. She has always been
intrigued by Egytpian design she says and that of other ancient
civilizations such as the Etruscans and Greeks.
The show also gave her a chance to make more of her designs
than would be normal. The biggest expense in her jewellery
making, she says is the time required to make a design in the
first place. For that reason she seldom makes just one of a kind.
Usually she will make two or three or even a dozen of a piece to
make up for her initial time investment and because, she says,
more than one person usually wants the piece and she feels badly
if only one person can enjoy it.
The pieces still tend to be one of a kind though, because of the
variables of working by hand and because of her use of
semi-precious stones in her jewellery such as amber, agate and
Jade which are never quite the same.
She has done some one -of -a -kind work for an art gallery in
Toronto that wanted exclusive work but she says it was so much
work. She's constantly being approached by people wanting to
commission her to make some kind of jewellery but it always
seems to come at her most busy time. There is so much time
needed to sit down and think about the piece and, design a piece
before making it, a commission inevitably gets set aside for more
pressing things and she ends up feeling badly. "I've just said I
must not take any more commissions," she says.
The fact that her jewellery is displayed by so many art
galleries shows that it is of special quality. In fact her biggest
outset across the province is the gallery she helped to start in
Stratford, Gallery 96. She's one of the small groups involved in
1975 in picking up the pieces of the old Dear Friends Gallery in
Stratford and turning it into Gallery 96. Today it's a successful
co-operative gallery that is, she says, "getting some really
excellent painters and craftsmen "
She enjoys her work with the gallery because it brings her into
contact with other artists and makes life in Stratford more
rewarding. She finds it tremendously stimulating to visit Toronto
and see all the artistic happenings there but feels perhaps it
wouldn't be so stimulating if you were there all the time. Living
in Stratford she has the best of both worlds, the peace of the
small city and the opportunity to jump in the car and go to the
city to be stimulated by the activities there.
Her biggest problem is time. Although jewellery making
works in fairly well with her job at the theatre there are times
when the theatre takes up so much time there's little left for the
jewellery. She's currently free to devote all her time to her
jewellery because her work at the theatre ended with the opening
of the play Orthello in mid-August and she won't be starting
work again until the new year. To take advantage of the free time
she tries to schedule herself eight hour days before her little
anvil hammering away. Once work at the theatre begins though
it takes 48-hour days to get all the work done, Ms. Bohdanetzky
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