Bond Blackman
  Jewelry Artist and Designer

Bond creates original and bold concepts that spontaneously flow into him from the media itself.  Unusual stones, ancient coins or pottery, antique buttons or pieces of vintage jewelry serve as inspirations for his unique jewelry designs.

Bond has lived his life entirely as an artist: from motion picture writer and producer to poet, creator and innovator of mosaics in wood, as well as intarsia and Pietra Dura techniques using precious stones. He has worked as an art director and writer as well as a professional appraiser of ancients prior to the Magna Carta.

Although a native Kansascitian, Bond worked in the motion picture business in Los Angeles. Later he worked as a director/producer and screenplay writer at Warner Brothers/Chardoff-Winkler. His interests gravitated to working in wood crafting two dimensional bas-relief using unprecedented techniques of his own invention. Subsequently, this unique art form was collected by many celebrities including John Denver, Burt Reynolds, Michael Landon, Ed McMahon, song writer Jimmy Weatherly Midnight Train to Georgia and others. His works were commissioned as well as bought at his studio/gallery and at Los Angeles art shows. His originals of Emmett Kelly, W.C. Fields, and reproductions of classic artists such as Paul Klee’s The Clown, Edward Munch’s The Scream, Modigliani’s Woman on a Bed, Rene Magritte’s Evening Falls, George Brock’s A Woman Sewing and others were celebrated as a break-through art form in Century City art shows as he used specialty woods as the media for large mosaic pictures.