: artist statement :  

When I was a tiny child my father got a VW bug. I remember being fascinated by the enameled emblem on the hood, which was just about at my eye level. I have always made things; when I was fourteen I began to make jewelry.

Like many other Northwest jewelry artists, my work tells a story, balancing between the personal and the archetypal. My intent is to evoke something larger than the few square inches of color and metal I play with. I see the influence of Byzantine enamels, Celtic and Scandinavian medieval jewelry, and the worlds of myth and legend in my work. When I look at a piece of jewelry from a thousand years ago, I delight to see the choices someone made and the marks of their tools; glass on metal can last for centuries. I am intrigued by the tension between the ephemeral life I have and the durable beauty I create.



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