Elegance ~ Fluidity
Both are qualities I bring to my work through a range of passions and pursuits. Drawing inspiration from music, dance, and the magnificence of the nature surrounding me, I am always creating art.

For over 12 years I have been hand making jewelry, bringing forth a self explored knowledge of gemstones and metal, design, and symbolism to my work. I see my pieces as sculptural art for body adornment.

Description of work process for my wax carvings/castings.
The inspiration to create a piece of jewellery could begin in a dream, a vision, a landscape, a feeling….

Wax is quite an interesting medium for me, as I need to turn off my logical brain, let go of control and let the wax guide me.

To begin a ring, I cut a portion off of a hollow wax tube, then size the inside of the tube. Then I begin filing down the outside of the tube so I have about 5mm thickness all around. At this point I will decide on either a gemstone, or not. If I use a stone I create the setting for this stone as a guide on the ring and begin to trace shapes with my favorite tool, a hand engraver. I etch lines and sand off these lines until I find a flow that I am interested in, then I begin to “shave away” the wax with the engraver. I literally let the design come out of the wax, as I find these are the magical pieces that contain the “life force”. Depending on the size of the ring and the design, my smaller rings take approximately 15 hours, the large fingerpieces anywhere from 30-40 hours. Once I am happy with the shape of the ring I begin to perfect the lines with a needle file, then sandpaper. Now the ring is ready to be cast.
I cast initially in sterling, I call this my master. I proceed to file and sand the whole piece to perfect all surfaces and prepare the ring to have a mold made. The mold is cut, I can now reproduce the ring, cast into a chosen metal, sand, file, polish and stone set (approx 6 hours).

Description of work process for hand fabricated work.
The main shape for this work takes form on my sketch pad, taking inspiration from the gemstones.  I transfer this shape to sheet silver, cut out with a saw, file and sand. Once I have chosen all stones I make their settings and solder them on to the silver shape. Now this is where the real fun begins! I begin to make all the design to decorate the piece, vines and leaves out of 22k gold and wire, and various sizes of gold balls. I begin soldering on these shapes, piercing and cutting out design from the main piece. I could do up to 20 different solder steps before the piece is finished. At which point I begin the hand sanding, 400 and 600 sandpaper to create a smooth finish.  Once smooth, the piece goes into a liver of sulphur bath to blacken the whole piece, then I polish away all the areas I can reach with my polishing wheels on my foredoom. The most exciting part, I am ready for stone setting!  These pieces are an improvisation, as I never plan the end result. Rings can take up to 12 hours to build, neckpieces the same.