Prairie Jewellery

The overwhelmingly beautiful prairie was once abundant with roaming buffalo, little churches and vibrant communities. They are symbols of an earlier era of prosperity. As they are rapidly disappearing from the landscape, so does history if there is no effort to document, preserve and record their stories. My series of prairie landscape jewellery is a sentimental look at my personal interest in the vanishing ways of life in the prairie and my reflection of the time when there was equilibrium between mankind and his environment.

Jewellery

I am happiest with my jewellery work when it achieves a straight forward elegance in shape and form. The composition is determined when I explore with different stones and metals letting the shapes interact with the colours. I strive for balance and simplicity.

Salvage

I take seemingly unremarkable everyday objects from their ordinary contexts and turn them into an expression of the unusual. This is most visible in my hats; a balance between seriousness and playfulness, between mankind and his environment, between conformity and dissent.