Jewelry Is Powerful
When you open up your jewelry drawer or chest, what do you find? Perhaps a piece from a lover, another from a memorable trip, and yet another made by one of your children. Maybe you’ve inherited pieces that you don’t wear, but can’t bear to give up. And, hopefully there is a piece that you’ve recently purchased as a gesture of who you are becoming. You’re ensnared by memories, emotions, ancestors, dreams and hopes.
Why I Create Jewelry
My hope is that the jewelry that I create gives you voice and flight. We all share the human experience, so I do this by reaching into the textures of my life. My jewelry pieces are personal and emotional. They could be inspired by a beautiful ballet, reading to my granddaughter, wishing that I had stood up for myself with a boss, camping under the stars, feeling prickly in a circumstance, eagerness for the first Spring flower, feeling a bit vampy or badass . . . We are multi-dimensional. I want my jewelry to capture all of that - to honor the whole of us.
In My Studio
I create my jewelry from beginning to end. It is all hand-crafted.
Primarily a self-taught jeweler, I am unbound by conventions of materials or process. At times it is the materials that speak, ancient Roman glass, porcupine quills, fossils, snake vertebra, and/or gorgeous gems and the design starts with them. Other times, it’s just the metal. I’m compelled to make a chain, or a cage, or forge a leaf, or sew closed a hammered form.
I often don’t know what the piece is about until after its complete, sometimes long after. I usually don’t start with a preconceived concept or a sketch, but sometimes I do. And, if I do, the piece usually takes on a life of its own as I play and other lines of vision emerge. Once in a great while, I stick with the plan, especially if I’m collaborating with a client.
Biography
I am an artist who makes jewelry. For the past 25 years, I was a painter and then a sculptor of life-size art dresses (not wearable). My jewelry-making overlapped for the last 8 years. I’ve committed to creating jewelry now, but still take an artist’s approach. Before the creative endeavors, I was first a civil engineer and then an environmental attorney (hopefully, making a good difference in the world). I enjoy long-haul bicycling, camping, skiing, and traveling, but most of all, creating. I live in Colorado where my studio looks out onto lodgepole pines, deer families, the occasional coyote, and magpies.
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