About

At the age of 9 or 10, my grandmother started to teach me silversmithing – it was one of her many artistic pursuits as she was also an accomplished sculptor, poet and fiber artist.  My main accomplishments were making silver friendship rings for my friends and cringy year-end gifts for my favorite elementary school teachers.   As the years passed, I periodically returned to silversmithing to make items for myself and others but found little time for it as I raised a family and pursued a career as a project manager and Six Sigma Black Belt. 

During the course of my career I traveled across the country dozens of times and always enjoyed looking out the window of the airplane to view the geologic and topographic characteristics of the terrain below: The Rockies, the Sierra Nevada range, the Grand Canyon, the plains and lakes and bays always struck me as fascinating – seeing the glacially-carved lakes, mesas and plateaus, lava-formed mountains and canyons shaped by rivers were always highlights of my travels. 

At some point I came to the realization that my life-long interest in silver as an art form could be combined with my interest in geology and topography by creating jewelry based on topographic data.  What better way to remember those lakes formed by glaciers, those canyons carved by rivers and those mountains formed by volcanic eruptions to remind me of the places I have visited.