Janice Fingado

Artist Biography
Janice Fingado has been designing Jewelry for 25 years. Her work is mainly Contemporary with some influence of the Native Southwest where she lived for 13 Years. She attends the annual Gem and Mineral Show in Tucson, Arizona, each Winter, where she selects unusual stones, Pearls and fossils to incorporate in her Silver pieces. Each piece is one-of-a-kind.
Janice was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1927. Because of her husband's business career with an international company she has lived in Switzerland, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Spain and England before settling in Kelowna in 1980. She took her first course In jewelry-making in Switzerland in 1967 And other courses followed in England and Tucson. She and her husband traveled extensively to all corners of the earth and along the way she found interesting stones: Moonstones from Katmandu, scarabs from Egypt, fossils from Alberta, and "noodled" for Opals in Coober Pedy, Australia, (where it is so Hot everyone lives underground).
Her work has been sold for the last few years At the Art Ark in Kelowna and has become a Fixture at the Kelowna Wine Festival's Days of Wine and Roses Show each Fall.

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Necklace Aquamarine and Pink flower	Necklace Agate and Moonstone beads

Necklace Cultured Pearls	Necklace Square Boulder Opal

Necklace Chaolite	Necklace Dyed Quartz

Necklace Faux Pearls	Necklace Fossilized Coral

Necklace Russian Serpentine	Necklace African Thin Rondels

Necklace Amethyst with Gaspeit	Necklace 3 strands of blue pearls and mosaic

Necklace Shell and Cultured Pearls	Necklace Shell and Cultured Pearls

Necklace Aurora Borealis Crystals & faux-pearl	Necklace Cultured Pearls & Swarovsky Crystal

Necklace Dichroic Glass & Blue Pearls