Artist statement:

I celebrate nature by creating jewellery from earth materials. Stones and shoreline have always held my imagination, and I pleasure in wrapping them in copper and sterling silver. This results in magical amulets of gemstones, pendants, necklaces and earrings to adorn your body – each a unique mini-sculpture.

Brief bio:

Studio:

This is my first year in the studio; please help to make it successful by visiting my studio in the barn at 6770 Old Hwy 2 (please see map). Besides my jewellery, visitors will find garden art by Daylily Studio, handmade boxes by Nick Hally of Maple Hollow Studio, leather-stained gourds by Linda Jessop, pottery by Saidie’s Pottery, and paintings and posters by Judith Versavel of Gallery on the Bay.

Open: Saturdays and Sundays, 11am to 5 pm, or by chance or appointment

Visitors are invited to walk through my perennial gardens.

Special Events 2010:

Prince Edward County WI Arts & Crafts Sale – Thursday July 29, 9am to 8 pm

Tweed & Area Studio Tour – October 2-3, 10am to 5 pm

Creativity Kingston – November 27 (10am-9pm) & 28 (10am-4pm)

Distinctions:

Expressions (juried show) 2009 and 2010 (John M. Parrott Art Gallery, Belleville)

Professional Development:

Kingston Lapidary & Mineral Club (since 2009)

Loyalist College (2006 & 2007)

Haliburton School of the Arts (Summer 2007, 2008, 2010)

Manitoulin Island (2005)

University of Windsor (sculpture, design, and photography courses influence jewellery design)

Memberships:

Kingston Lapidary and Mineral Club (http://www.mineralclub.ca/)

Quinte Arts Council (http://www.quinteartscouncil.org/)

Tweed & Area Studio Tour Association (http://www.tweedstudiotour.org/)

Author:

Calla & Édourd, a fiction, North Shore Series, Hidden  Brook Press (http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/b-NShore.html 2009.

The Farm & City Cookbook, essays on Canada's food system, recipes (Toronto: Second Story Press, 1994. 292 pages), co-author.

Articles and poems published in magazines, literary journals, and books including Grandmothers Necklace (2009) and The Wisdom of Old Souls (2008).

 Left to right: Turquoise and sterling pendant, necklace from the Kenya collection, and sterling silver, fire jade necklace