Some paths unfold quietly, almost without our noticing — until one day we realize we’ve been walking toward them all along.

A Path to the Bench

I didn’t set out expecting to become a metalsmith. My background is in biology, and for many years my world centered around raising my children. But somewhere along the way, I began craving a language that felt entirely my own — something made slowly, held closely, shaped by hand.

When I finally found jewelry making, it felt less like a discovery and more like a remembering. A place where focus, intuition, and quiet devotion could live together.

Learning the Craft

What began as a small curiosity grew into a lifelong study. I fell in love with the traditional techniques that now guide my work: chasing and repoussé, hand engraving, diamond setting, and the patient act of building each form from raw metal.

These methods ask for humility and stillness. They taught me how to listen to the metal, how to trust the process, and how to let the work unfold in its own time.

Apprenticeship and Study

Along the way, I sought out teachers whose hands carried decades of knowledge.

  • An apprenticeship with Peter Keep at Jewelry Training Solutions laid the foundation of my craft.
  • I studied chasing and repoussé with Davide Bigazzi in San Francisco — a Florentine master working far from home.
  • I spent a week in Florence learning one-on-one from an Italian goldsmith whose precision and grace still echo in my bench work.
  • And I completed a diamond-setting course, the Microsetting Academy, with Ian Bernard, whose technical clarity changed the way I see stonework.

Each experience left an imprint — a gesture, a rhythm, a way of seeing — that now lives quietly inside my pieces.

Inspired by the Natural World

My work begins in small, ordinary moments: the curve of a fern, the architecture of a seed pod, the soft reminder of a season changing. Nature offers shapes and silences that feel familiar to me, and I try to honor them in metal.

I want each piece to carry a sense of stillness — a grounding presence the wearer can return to again and again.

Jewelry as a Companion

Every design is built with intention and meant to age gently alongside the person who chooses it. My hope is that the quiet energy I pour into my work becomes something you can feel — a companion you reach for without thinking.

Exhibitions

Over the years, my pieces have traveled to juried exhibitions from Virginia to Connecticut, from Long Island to Detroit.

Meeting collectors who connect with the work — who see themselves in a curve or texture — remains one of the most meaningful parts of this journey.

A Quiet Thank-You

Thank you for being here.

For supporting work made slowly, by hand.

For allowing me to keep growing, one piece at a time.

And wherever this path continues to lead, I’m grateful to walk it with people who feel the work as deeply as I do.