I am a metalsmith and lapidarist based in Williamsburg, Virginia. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, I moved to the East Coast in 2020.

I started making jewelry about ten years ago. I’m especially influenced by jewelry artifacts of the antiquities, and what enduring pieces have been made using the same techniques and design principles that are still so germane today. I love that jewelry-making is essentially the creation of tiny pieces of wearable art. The thought of my work making someone feel happy, confident, special, beautiful, etc., is one of the things I love most about it, so I am always striving to create pieces that my customers will be inspired by and treasure forever.

I've been stonecutting since about the same time I started making jewelry. Lapidary, of course, dovetails perfectly into metal work. I’ve always loved rocks, especially as a kid, and was brought back around to them when I went to my first gem show in a high school gym in Marysville, Washington. I was dumbstruck: the tables of hulking crystal clusters; the polished glow of the tiny cabochons; the delicate fossil specimens and their stories; the overflowing buckets of rough rock chunks I’d never even heard of; etc. This lit the spark for me to start rock cutting, something I’d always wanted to do. I love that you can cut a piece open and essentially find a painting - a painting that results only after intense geological processes take place over thousands and sometimes millions of years.

It probably also goes without saying that I am obsessed with my calico cat, whose likeness can be found all over this website.

Thank you for your interest in my work. I hope you love what I make as much as I do.