About the Artist

“Since creating my line of jewelry in 1998, my work with resins and colors, as well as my design sense, have really grown and opened up for me. I seem to keep finding again and again that I am primarily a colorist who has a passion for jewelry and its sensual urge.”

Though she studied ceramics and painting in college, she began creating jewelry after taking a class in the use of resins at the Penland Art School. She was originally drawn to resins because they were a bit unconventional in the fabrication of jewelry.  “I love using resins and sterling, and chose them in the beginning because they seemed like a wonderful subversion of the ‘norm.’“ Even more than this, she now enjoys the freedom and painterly spontaneity the resins permit.

About the Work

“The graphic, clean quality found in my work stems from the singular, raw moment of seeing or experiencing something for the first time. But it is also inspired by the elegance that can be found only in distilling something down to its essence. Other pieces are designed simply to reflect my sense of humor.”

Education and Experience

1998  Opened studio to pursue one-of-a-kind and production work

• Penland Art School, NC, Susan Sloan, instructor, “Epoxy Resins”

1996  BFA Nebraska Wesleyan University, ceramics and painting

1994  Staffordshire Polytechnic University, England, semester of study

Publications                                  

Lapidary Journal, August 2004

Art Jewelry Today, Donna Meilach, Shiffer Publishing 2003

Gallery, American Craft Magazine, October/Novemebr 2002

Stylewise, Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, July 2002