Whale Tail Creations

Beautiful necklaces, bracelets, rings and earings.

Jewellery of Whale Tail Creations — Diane Mahood
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Artist Diane Mahood of Whale Tail Creations

Diane Mahood is the artist behind the jewelry designs of Whale Tail Creations.  She lives and works from her North Vancouver home and studio, located along the banks of Lynn Canyon headwaters. Diane’s designs of silver and semi-precious stone are inspired by the natural world, the creative spirit of her father and her First Nations heritage.

Diane’s fascination with BC coastal waters and the sudden and sometimes violent changes in weather and landscape inspires many of her pieces. Her silver-stamping techniques take on the movement and textures of water and sand.  She uses wire wrapping to capture whirlpools of semi-precious stones in aqua blues and seaweed greens. She uses hot and cold fusion to link concentric silver ripples into bracelets and necklaces.

Occasionally the staggered shape of the traditional native headdress, the rounded crest of a wave or the curved line of a whale’s tail finds its way into the shape and symmetry of Diane’s collared beadwork.

Diane’s participation at the 2008 Burning Man Art Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada inspired a whole new collection. Warm continuous hues, in snake skin lace-jasper and maple wood beads, blend with lofty blues of peruvian opals, in reminiscence of a desert spilling into caramel hills and empty sky.

Under the name ‘Whale Tail Creations’, Diane’s bead jewelry is displayed and sold in the well-known Shorewind Gallery of Tofino, BC.

Other pieces by this artist may be available. If you are interested in viewing additional samples of this artist's work
please contact us, we would be happy to email photos upon request.