Next week I will be exhibiting at the La Quinta Arts Festival with my reverse painted chandeliers. Here are the details: La Quinta Arts Festival March 7th— 10th • 10am—5pm Booth # 319, La Quinta’s Civic Center Campus (78495 Calle Tampico La Quinta CA). Though I have exhibited in fine art festivals for the past [...]
Yes, my art form has it's roots in a very old art form and yes, it is rare—these are realizations that are not groundbreaking to me. There is a lot of blood, sweat and tears behind my work, especially in the earlier years. It is a very challenging calling to choose to pursue the life [...]
Woodsy Green is a new reverse painted chandelier with green and earth tone colors. It's a very lavishly layered painting that features grasses and ferns and palm fronds and a warm gold colored bottom. The flowers that are interspersed with the greens are accent colors. White daisies, columbine flowers, Texas blue bells, sage, Indian paint [...]
This is the second custom reverse painted lamp shade that I completed via commission for a couple in Florida who had broken one of a pair of treasured painted lamp shades. The shade that broke was a mass-produced type of shade, not done by any particular artist and probably done in a factory overseas but [...]
Just released a new Geisha reverse painted chandelier in my Honolulu Beauties Series. This is a 24" diameter piece and features one 'Geisha' face. My Honolulu Beauties are inspired by the picture brides that went to Hawaii in the early 1900s. They left everything they knew behind in their homelands—their family, their foods, their climate [...]
I'm excited to announce that Circles of Sedona, an abstract reverse hand painted chandelier, is a 2013 NICHE Awards Finalist! I've know this since the fall but am now just getting the time to share. This abstract, hand painted chandelier was made by me. I create and fire my glass bowls here in my studio. [...]
Cat Got The Grapes is the unofficial title that I gave to this commissioned, reverse hand painted lamp shade that was created for a couple who live in Florida. Every year I meet people who have unfortunately broken a painted lamp, usually an antique. The broken lamp in question for this client was not so [...]
Circles of Promise is an abstract, reverse painted chandelier featuring my new contemporary iron fixture design. The coloring in this painted chandelier is very vibrant. I am the artist and my name is Jenny Floravita. All of my reverse painted chandeliers are painted by me in my studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. My [...]
I'm so excited!!! This has been a long time coming but I'm finally able to say that I have a new forged-fixture design option for my abstract reverse painted glass chandeliers. The fixture I'm showing here is my new Circles of Color chandelier. You can see more details on it's page: https://floravitalights.com/portfolio/circles-of-color-abstract-reverse-painted-chandelier The swirl element [...]
With the Summer Danville Fine Arts Faire behind me, it's time to leave to deliver work to my fine art glass gallery in Santa Monica, which sells contemporary glass art for some of the nation's most established artists. Yes, I'll be sharing the info for this gallery upon my return—when I'm not in such a [...]
This past weekend was very hot at the annul Summer Danville Fine Arts Faire but I'm proud to say that it was still a great success. Despite 108 degree weather on Saturday and slightly cooler weather—but still hot—on Sunday I sold several significant pieces. The reverse painted chandelier here was titled Honolulu Beauties—a lovely geisha [...]
Temperatures could be in the 90s on Saturday in Danville, California for the annual summer Danville Fine Arts Faire, website is: www.mlaproductions.com/Danville-Spring. Sunday should be a bit milder as temperatures are predicted to be in the early 80s—absolutely perfect weather for an art festival..that said, Sunday is also the second day and that means missing [...]
