When I make jewelry, I attempt to hit that sweet spot between pure design and wearability. While I enjoy building these pieces, I’m not as taken with jewelry itself as much as I am with playing with color, texture and composition, and I love finding beauty and then working to build something practical and wearable around it. I’ve always resonated with William Morris’ insistence that nothing belonged in his home that wasn’t simultaneously useful and beautiful. I guess I try to bring the Arts back into Crafts in my own little way.

I love reincorporating components from broken jewelry into new, classic pieces; combining found materials, textiles and miniature painting into conversations waiting to be had.

By using found-objects and antique design components, I can borrow notes of style from particular eras and cultures and create things that have a practical contemporary sensibility, but that also have strong roots to the best designs of our past.