My jewelry is animated by gesture: the look in a lizard's eye, the arch of a woman's back, an elegantly decaying leaf. It's the details in this world that catch my eye and inform my design sense. I am intrigued by the surface of things, and how surface pattern reveals the underlying structure. For example, the Trellis Earrings design originated in studies of steel bridge supports, that expand and contract with the span of the bridge. The gentle curve of the earrings appears to stretch and distort the trellis pattern in a similar way.

If I could, I would make jewelry as extravagant as a Versailles mirror frame, but in my desire to make affordable production art jewelry, expression is tempered by economy. I would not call this a compromise, however. In the distillation of a design, it becomes more focused, the remaining details more clearly revealing the artist's intentions.

I was always an artist, but I came to jewelry later, after graduating from art school and living and working in New York for several years. I was trained in jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and in jewelry fabrication techniques at the Revere Academy of Jewelry in San Francisco. After an apprenticeship to a jeweler in the Diamond District in New York, I moved to Portland Oregon, where I am now able to focus full-time on jewelry making and design.