Jewelry

 I began falling in love with jewelry at an early age, playing dress-up in the jewelry boxes of both my grandmothers. I always enjoyed being adorned from head-to-toe in anything from large costume jewelry to delicate silver chains. In high school I began to work predominantly in 3d forms by way of ceramics. I had a deep appreciation for process + detail & knew I wanted to pursue art as a career. It wasn't until right before college that I found metalsmithing & took a chance on a new art medium. The minute I knew fire was involved to be a metalsmith, I was hooked. 

I am largely inspired by Native American Silversmith Jewelry for its bold use of stamping, gorgeous cuts of natural turquoise & beautifully polished silver. 

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Nature

I am the daughter of a florist & a farmer, so in our family, nature is everything. As a child, Sunday afternoons consisted of family & nature. We would take these days to search for arrowheads & interesting rocks in the freshly worked ground or find beautiful flowers in the woods around our home. We would sometimes take the flowers we found & press them into books or hammer them into fabric. Other times my sister & I would collect fallen petals from flowers in my mother's floral shop & create our own "potpourri". This essence of using nature to create art is mimicked today in the way I generate dye baths & choose stones for a collection. It's funny to see how my youthful curiosities have blossomed into my adult passions.