Last week I learned that the recent full moon coincided with Imbolc, the Celtic festival that serves as the halfway point between the shortest day of the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Imbolc is also known as St. Brigid’s day. Brigid (Ffraid in Welsh) is the patron saint of Metalsmiths, including the “bright smiths”…
2024 marks my 35th year as a professional metalsmith! To celebrate, I’m launching 2 huge projects! One is a retrospective of my artwork with insights and highlights about my most significant pieces from each year of my journey. This will be experienced both online and in print, so wherever you are, you’ll be able to…
In an unprecedented move of playfulness and exploration, I flew to the UK in early December and delved into all things metal, mud, and fun. One of the better ‘Coronabonuses’ of the last 4 years was the many airline credits and thousands of points my husband and I had racked up in our limited travel…
Tired of Christmas carols already? (Me too!) Get inspired with lots of my artwork and a bit of bragging on my Eastern repoussé students in this great conversation with Jennifer Stenhouse and Julia Lowther of Little Metal Foxes. On this episode of Tool Tip Tuesdays, we talk about my unique approach to teaching, the effectiveness…
It might be difficult to change the world, but you can definitely make metal bend to your will. It’s time for some relief! Truthfully, Eastern repoussé and chasing is one of my most favorite classes to teach because I get to watch people learn to think dimensionally in ways they didn’t know were possible to…
Thinking back to what made me good at filigree, I’ve probably proven my own theory that that the rise and fall of certain technologies is related to the economic constraints of a particular time and culture…except that it didn’t always. Long long ago (”in a galaxy far far away”…almost 35 years ago!) I was a…
It’s official! I don’t just teach courses, workshops, and masterclasses. I have my own school. Technically, it’s been official for a while, but after many months of work behind the scenes, I’ve assembled all the pieces, fused the foundation, soldered the connections, forged the materials, and sanded like mad to present my school’s shiny polished…
