I trained as a painter. Oil on canvas, portraiture, the slow study of light on skin. But I never could stay still.
For years I moved through the world collecting experiences the way some people collect stones. New York street fairs. Winters in Mexico. Attending births as a midwife in Tanzania, the Philippines, Uganda. Each place left something with me.
In 2018, I wandered into a small shop in Moab, Utah selling traditional Navajo jewelry. Something shifted. I came home, set up a bench in my guest bedroom, and taught myself to work metal.
Seven years later, I work from a quiet studio in the Haliburton Highlands. The painter's eye never left. I still see each gem as a tiny painting waiting for its frame.
I rarely sketch. Each piece begins with a gem. I turn it over, hold it to the light, wait for it to show me what it wants to become.
Inclusions are features, not flaws. A crack of colour, a cloud of mineral, a landscape frozen in chalcedony. These are the things that make a gem worth setting.
Perfection is not my path. Character is.
I work in 18k and 22k solid gold. Never plated, never hollow. The higher karat gives a richer colour, closer to the ancient jewelry that first called to me.
I care about where materials come from. Some of my gold is Fairmined certified, traceable to small-scale mining operations with real environmental and labour standards. The gems I choose are natural, often unusual, selected for character over convention.
BFA Drawing & Painting, OCAD University, Toronto
Gem Setting Intensive, Accademia delle Arti Orafe, Rome (2024)
Licensed Fairmined Gold Artisan
NYC Jewelry Week, Gem Gossip
Made You Look (Toronto), Pistachios Gallery (Chicago), Robert Goodman Jewelers (Indiana), Atlanta Botanical Garden, Chebe Jewelry (Puerto Rico), MarMar Boutique (Block Island)
I work from a home studio in the Haliburton Highlands, two hours north of Toronto. Forest on all sides. The quiet suits the work and the way I like to think.
Studio visits are welcome by appointment for custom consultations. For those in the Toronto area, you can see my work at Made You Look on Queen Street West.
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