OK, it's really just my website, but welcome anyway!   My name is Nanette Thorell (but you can call me Nan), I am the artist.

I began my egg art career about 20 years ago starting with the wonderful Ukrainian Easter Eggs, or Pysanky. I was (and still am) fascinated with the designs and colors of this beautiful traditional egg art form. Eventually I began to explore with my own designs, experimenting with color and different techniques.

My egg art journey eventually evolved into an interest in Egg Shell Jewelry (as egg art naturally rolls in different directions). With the help of Jane Pollak's wonderfully comprehensive book Decorating Eggs: Exquisite Designs with Wax & Dye, where she explains the process of making eggshell jewelry using domestic goose egg shells. Through many months of trial and error, I finally settled on a technique using ostrich egg shells. I love working with the ostrich egg for it's durability and it's gently pebbled surface.

I have been slowly building a following over the years, and am fortunate to have been featured in a newspaper article in the 1980's for the Egg Artist's Show at the Grand Galleria in Escondido, California. Most recently, I was so honored to be voted the Artist's Choice award by my fellow exhibiting artists at the "Labors Of Love" Timberon Artists Showcase.

My specialty is Ukrainian jewelry, but my design inspiration comes from many sources, including (but not limited to) quilt block patterns, traditional ethnic designs, pueblo pottery art, country and folk art and - of course - Mother Nature.

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As you enter my shopping area, please take a second to click on the thumbnail pictures to see the larger image, or for different views of the item. Egg Art is most beautiful viewed close up. Each piece is hand decorated individually, using the batik (wax resist) method, and each one is signed by the artist - which would be me.

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