The jewelry line was created after someone suggested making pendants from David Clack's nature images on 1" metal tiles with a black cord. These were incredibly popular, and customers wanted more. Soon they expanded their designs to include earrings to match.

 

   For years, David had the idea of taking several of his nature landscape images and layering them together, creating multiple exposure abstract images. By allowing some of the underlying images to shine through, colors and textures appear in beautiful ways.  These photos from David's Clack's portfolio have become a part of our jewelry line, and they are incredibly popular.

   Alongside the photographic jewelry designed by David Clack, Illustrated Light has partnered with artist Shelly Hearne. Her delicate artwork and designs are available in a wide variety of their jewelry styles.

   All of their products are hypo-allergenic and contain no nickel. The ear wires are made of antique copper on steel or sterling silver plated. The prints are UV protected and water resistant.

Artists:

David Clack

"As a young boy, I would hike and camp  throughout the Colorado wilderness. I marveled at the beauty and purity of it all: the crisp, clean air and the sound of wind rustling through the tops of ponderosa pine. Growing older I wondered: 'Where did all this come from, how could something so beautiful exist?'..."

   David Clack has been a professional photographer for the past 23 years. He started his career as a biomedical photographer at Colorado State University. David is the CEO of Colorado Photographics, Inc., formed in 1985. In 1990, David served on the community advisory board for One West Contemporary Art Center, now the Museum of Contemporary Art (COCA). He also help co-found the Center of Fine Art Photography. David's first book "Colorado Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography" was published in 1998. He has been selling his prints in galleries throughout Colorado for many years. In 2002, David was invited to be a keynote speaker at the United Nations "Year of the Mountain" conference in Malaysia, speaking on photographing the Rocky Mountains.

Shelly Hearne:

   "From growing up on Cape Cod, to raising my own family in Colorado, my life has continually been filled with movement and color - the most essential elements of my work. I grew up, one of six children, in a little town called Falmouth, Massachusetts. It was during high school that I first discovered my appreciation for art, and that I had a knack for it. 

   Not knowing what to do, and needing a change of environment, I joined the Air Force after graduation. During my service, I was fortunate enough to travel and to see the world through a different lens. During my final years in the reserves, I began focusing more on art and earned a degree in interior design. 

   I found that this type of work did not 

allow me the creative expression for which I was searching, so I began painting again. I taught myself, through trial and error, to capture the curve of a calla lily, the rolling shadows of a mountain and the ever-changing colors of a forest.  

   My artistic influences include the works of Wolf Kahn and Georgia O'Keefe, among others. I hope to evoke from my viewers exactly what I derive from the work myself: feeling, spirit and passion."