About

 

 

Growing up in Oregon, an hours drive from the Pacific ocean has gifted me a life long pull towards the salty air and lush green forests of the Pacific NW coastline. In my early 20’s I worked a seasonal job in Alaska. During my free time I would spend hours looking at the ground for beach treasures or deepening my growing knowledge of wild edible foods and medicinals. At the end of my first summer I shipped home 2 fifty pound boxes of fish and 2 large priority boxes full of sea glass!

Having been inspired by using unique materials in my art work and specifically simple jewelry made out of coconut or sea shells in my teenage years, it wasn’t long before I got curious about sea glass.

A friend taught me to drill holes in the glass, but it didn’t scratch that itch of what I was desiring to create. I set the whole jewelry thing down for a long time.

It would be years later, after I took a metal smithing class on a whim, that I would remember my earlier inspirations and tie it altogether, using some of the beach glass and pottery I brought home with me from Alaska in my work.

Over the years, as if being guided, I found myself in just the right places at just the right time where I was continuously gifted material for the jewelry being created through me. I was able to incorporate more and more found natural materials such as petrified wood, jaspers, and agate, into my jewelry.

My process is to try to allow each design to be born as organically as the formation of the pebbles themselves, smoothed over time by their continuous cycles through surf and sand. I love allowing the unique features of the raw material to speak for itself.