About

Creating metal jewelry is both sculptural and deeply personal, and steeped in a lifetime of preparation. I grew up surrounded by art and design. My mother is a painter and sculptor and my father was a sculptor.  My grandfather was an architectural photographer, recording the seminal modern buildings of the 20th century.  My family's intrinsic teaching about form, space and geometry created a foundation to how I think about the world. Education in anthropology and landscape architecture ground my work as an expression of both humanity and design.

Metal jewelry with resonance as to how we inhabit the world.

Making has always been a primary activity for me. As a kid, I was building forts, and painting and creating.  This continued into adulthood, with forays into a multitude of media, from paint to fabric to yarn to gardens and landscapes. At long last I started working in metal; it clicked in all the right ways.The intensity of working metal (flame, heat, forming, pounding, melting (!)) is thrilling.  Combining the power of the material with the intimacy of worn jewelry was the perfect match.

A direct connection between fine art and human experience was always a missing piece for me. Metal jewelry allows for just the kind of connection I sought between art and humanity. Each hand formed piece is more than the metal; each is deeply tied to the individual who wears it, referencing material, form, and spirit, with the aim of connecting every wearer to the larger world.

While education and family history shape how I engage with art, my personal experiences guide and further refine my work. I am a collector - of experiences, but also of stuff.  Nearly every journey away from my home studio leads to a return of more - rocks, twigs, shells, pottery shards - the cast off structures of the world around us. The magnetism of these objects is a backbone of my design ethos. 

The details of structures of our world, both built and natural, discovered by chance and design, are a constant source of inspiration and fascination.

Each item in my collection is handmade. Unique with marks and evidence of being hand wrought, every piece is imbued with creative vision. Over time, the wearer will continue to mark and shape the piece.