I am a collector at heart.  I love to collect beautiful things, I have a well curated collection of glassware and china.  I love to collect experiences.  And, naturally given the nature of my work I love to collect jewelry. In particular, I love to make beautiful rings that reflect and celebrate times in my life.

This ring collection represents a time between 1980 and 1995 when I was living and designing in  Australia.  The lapis with cabriole shoulders still speaks to me daily, the square rings I always have worn stacked together on my left hand and the braided ring still remains a really strong looking ring to me.  These are all my oldies but goldies.

The next group of rings represent me finding my way in New York when I was just getting started and flirting with different techniques.  I did a lot of antique scroll work, I still love the classic nature of them and the way they feel.  I absolutely love the big hammered ball pain ring that is nice and masculine, we made this from a melted ingot that we rolled up into a freeform shape.  One of the reasons I love working with gold so much is that you can melt it down easily and turn it into something else with some love and attention, its a  great metaphor for life.

The final group represents me finding my signature, the crownwork®.  I toyed around with it as a design concept while I was in Australia but really worked on it as my design technique after being in New York for around a year. I love to make myself at least one signature ring a year and the design is usually born from a stone that I fall in love with.   The Sapphire, Opal and Garnet rings are great examples of this,  these were all stones I discovered in Tucson and they spoke to me immediately.

The regency ring series was born from a champagne diamond ring I dreamed up for myself then launched the design into the collection.