Varvara Konstantinov is an amazing lady from Russia and I feel a certain kinship with her.  Like me she has an electronics background but has taken on this wonderful art of making beautiful jewelry with seed beads.

She has three books published in English, and I wish she would do more!  One is on the netting stitch, another on the coraling technique and the third one mixes those two and peyote stitch to make jewelry that has beaded flower details.

You can buy her pieces at her website - http://www.goder.com/beads/

Margie Deeb does not just "bead", she creates art with her beading.  She has authored three amazing books and she writes a monthly column (now a podcast as well) regarding colors and their use in art.

Here you can read more about her biography - http://www.margiedeeb.com/html/about.php

Here you can see the wonderful gallery of works - http://www.margiedeeb.com/html/gallery.php