This bead is inspired by the golden sands, dunes, woodlands and marshes of Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula.

There was so much we wanted to capture within this bead for this beautiful bay! We decide to make a bead capturing all the colours of this stretch of coastline from the golden sands, rich ambers and greens of the grass topped dunes into the woodland the purple wildflowers. 

The core is made with a rich transparent purple and layers of cream, teal, purple and amber glass have been swiped over each other creating depth and layers to the surface. The bead is then finished off with little dots of green spiralling around the bead for the woodland trees.

The technique we have used to make this bead will create an entirely unique pattern for each bead we make. There will be variations from the sample bead in the image.