Torched Art

Specialties

Starting in 1996, Christina made her first glass bead. She offers a variety of glass bead designs in beautiful colors. She uses her glass beads in her jewelry and functional home treasures.

Christina offers classes in glass beadmaking, silversmithing, jewelry design and guiding you in setting up your own studio.

If you have attended anything like a Tupperware party, you can host your own Jewelry Party too. You provide the space and munchies, invite your friends, family and coworkers, and Christina will transform your space into a jewelry boutique. Christina can make custom adjustments or take special orders to match your new clothing or update something a little older. The hostess throws a fun party and gets FREE jewelry.

Please feel free to give Christina a call, she would love to hear from you.

For more information please visit her website

or call 858−598−6064

History

Established in 1996.

For Christina’s birthday, her sister signed them up for a beginning glass beadmaking class at a local bead store. After a few hours, she was hooked. Through the past several years she has taken classes from Loren Stump, and Kim Osibin in Venice Italy. Christina started teaching her own classes a few years later as well as assisting Kim and Leah Fairbanks in their classes.

Christina has been working as a Registered Dental Assistant in San Diego, California and is now starting to reenter the art scene to once again teach and sell her beads and jewelry.

Meet the Business Owner

Christina C.

Business Owner

Just after High School, Christina Nixon started her journey of glass beadmaking, also known as lampworking. Starting with an introductory class at a local bead store, in 1996, she soon advanced to working in her own home studio and assisting well known lampwork artists at bead shows and art schools. Starting in 2000, she has taught her own classes at art galleries, home studios, and at the Bead Expo. Christina’s passion for beads has taken her all over the states and to Murano, Italy to take an advanced lampworking class in 2001. She has an AA in Art, Jewelry Design. In addition to her glass beadmaking skills, she enjoys silversmithing and fabricating her take on the traditional Italian style Micro Mosaics. Christina’s diverse designs are greatly influenced by ancient, historical and cultural design motifs. She uses her beads in unique jewelry and functional household objects, such as tableware handles, cabinet or canister knobs, wine stoppers and wall hook knobs.