Exhibiting Artist

I have been working with metal since 2003.

Talisman and amulets were once carried for protection through the difficult world. I forge a connection to the past ways through my work. I capture the definition and defying of time, speaking to that inside of us, unchanging and persistent.

I specialize in mixed metal jewelry and accessories, using steel, silver, brass, bronze, and copper. Through forging, fusing, soldering, and riveting, I create ancient yet contemporary designs. While metal is one of the worlds toughest materials, I find it empowering and humbling to form and shape it to a new life, breathing expression of forgotten cultures. I contribute funds monthly towards planting trees in the Amazonian rain forest, in order to off-set my carbon footprint and assist in healing our environment.

I incorporate the textures of bones, seeds, stones, feathers, and quills into my metalwork, creating life and story. I also include industrial elements such as clock gears, bullets, keys, and machine parts that juxtapose natures sacred beauty and suggest a mysterious curiosity within the human spirit.

My passion is to offer adornment and meaning, to channel the flows of my experience into form, and to pursue and preserve the ancient, artistic techniques of blacksmithing. I create to reveal the quaint ruins of past and ethnic cultures to form objects of protection, beauty, emotion, and narrative.