Mindbogglingly quickly, the Earth has made yet another trip around the sun, and so this month marks 36 years since I began my journey as a metalsmith. Somehow 16 months have flown by since I began work on my exhibition and monograph Radiant Echoes to coincide with my 35th anniversary. Radiant Echoes evolved largely due…
I’m opening the digital doors behind the scenes to highlight the Eastern repoussé Turtle Doors, another piece from my retrospective Radiant Echoes that was hugely significant, partially because of the scale but mostly because I successfully pulled off something I’d never seen done before. It’s difficult for me to believe that it’s been eight years…
With repoussé, I always felt driven to take full advantage of the technique by making the relief appear intertwined and dimensional. However, like most artists practicing chasing and repoussé, I primarily first created what I now think of as “bumps on a background.” My intention is not to sound patronizing; some of the greatest repoussé…
We interrupt our regularly scheduled online exhibition with some exciting updates!I’m so excited to share that CraftForms2024 juror Jo Lauria awarded my necklace Ribbon Lace II the Juror’s Award for Jewelry last month at the CraftForms gala opening! I was already thrilled to be one of only three artists who had both their application pieces…
The last 7 months have been an epic adventure into my own archive for my 35th anniversary retrospective. I’ve immersed myself in a world of tasks and decisions that surround bringing the legacy of my metalwork into accessible formats. As the big reveal gets nearer, I wanted to give you a glimpse into the process…
Before my recent and brief studio escape last month, I finished two more rings that I showed in-progress a few newsletters ago. I chose to mix the traditional cameo shape of the ring top’s elliptical dome with the wild, inward and back out motion of spiral galaxies in the shank’s structure. The granulation on the…
I recently celebrated another trip around the sun with a bit of time off. I know, shocker alert! I’m not one to leave the studio often. Now I’m back in the throes of my 35th anniversary retrospective happening this summer. Stay tuned for more! If you’ve followed my work for long, you’ll know that June…
