Decades ago, my dream was to be a

jeweler. I would be a ‘gypsy” traveling

the world in my VW van. So “sixties,”

yes? However, I fell passionately in love

with CLAY. Now all these years later,

I return to the world of Wearable Art

Jewelry and with it, a tool-box honed from

decades in the visual arts. I bring to the

realm of  artist made jewelry, skills

developed from painting and sculpture,

ever evolving.

In between my beginnings in art and today, I have created one-of-a kind clay vessels, from small to monumental as well as abstract sculptural and architectural work. After years as a clay artist, I evolved into the area of painting and copper. I now make figurative and abstract copper sculpture, mixed media sculptural ‘’short stories,’’ jewelry and mixed metal wall paintings/constructions.

                                   1978-Beginning of a Dream

Setting the bone and muscle for this artistic journey was an equally potent back-to-the land odyssey that started with a raw 60 acre wasteland, (above, 200yr. old Poplar Beams from The Goo Goo Factory in 1978 that became the house in the same spot, pictured below) that has over the last 37 years birthed a hand-made artist house and a little dreamscape.

Each piece of art and art series relates back to my childhood, whether playing constantly in the Tennessee woodlands where my sense of form was learned amongst the trees, or in Hebrew class, trying so hard to form those strange and sculptural letters. Though the religious aspect didn’t “take” in a traditional sense, the shapes of those letters and tree forms imprinted a potent genesis into my artistic DNA and are all inter-connected as a spirited, if not spiritual, journey framed by the land, the hand, and a large dose of magic.