Handmade Mediterranean Enamel Jewelry Collection

Until I was thirteen, my family spent every summer at a campsite in Greece. The pine trees made a wide shade — wide enough for a tent, a table, and most of an afternoon underneath. Days on the beach, fishing, collecting shells. The cicadas loud enough that I can still hear them now. The sea was a blue I still haven't really seen anywhere else.

We had no refrigerator, so the watermelons stayed in the sea to keep cold.

That memory sits underneath the Studio Editions. Not as theme or decoration. Just as the colors that return when I sit down at the bench.

The Mediterranean has a particular palette — deep Aegean blue where the water darkens, pale turquoise in the shallows, the bleached white of shells and sun-warmed stone. The enamel pieces move through those three notes. Blue running into white. Turquoise pooling where the silver dips slightly under the heat. No two pieces end up identical, because enamel doesn't behave that way, and I don't try to make it.

I left Greece and my corporate life when I moved to Washington with my family. Here, I decided to take the leap — to stop treating jewelry as something I fit around everything else and begin building a studio practice around it. I had found jewelry almost twenty years earlier, but in Washington it became the work I chose to follow more fully: torch enamel, keum-boo, oxidization, and hand fabrication.

Organic Form Ring with Enamel

A sterling silver ring with an organic, irregular top — small dips and cavities holding pools of pale turquoise enamel, like seawater caught in stone. No two rings are identical; each one is shaped and finished by hand.

The Studio Editions are where those techniques meet the colors I grew up around.

This collection is small: a few earrings, a ring, a couple of pendants. Organic forms rather than geometric ones — asymmetric, shaped as much by the interaction between silver and enamel as by deliberate drawing. Each piece is made once. When a drop closes, those pieces don't return in the same form. The next group arrives differently.

The pieces are made in recycled sterling silver and, in some cases, recycled 24k gold for keum-boo. The enamel is applied and fired by hand in small batches at the bench.

Studio Editions release a few times each year, depending on how much bench time exists around the rest of life and work.

If a piece you saw is gone, that piece is gone. The next one will be different.