 | Artist: A-Z Jewelry Design
Welcome to my website/studio. Here you will find one of a kind (or very limited edition) handmade, beaded, gemstone jewelry creations by myself; Linda Blackbourn; as well as imported, finely handcrafted .925 Sterling Silver - Silversmithed - Gemstone & Pearl Pendants, Earrings and Bracelets.
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 | Artist: Amenda Tate
I am a jewelry designer and metalsmith. I individually handcraft each piece in my Colorado studio. My works are contemplations, entertaining the idea that objects can be both organic in form and relation as well as mechanical in a functional format: adornment.
I have been designing and creating cutting-edge jewelry since 1996. I enjoy the process of hand forging and fabrication and combine these processes with innovative practices.
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 | Artist: Ann Dillon
Design, color, and texture have always been major components of my life in one form or another. I grew up in my parents' freelance home furnishings design studio. I majored in Fine Arts at UNH.
I've always had to create something. For a long time, that took the form of weaving - mostly one-of-a-kind wearables. Since 1993, I've been working with polymer clay, making mainly beads and jewelry. A few years back, smaller beads began to nudge at me and want to be part of the mix.
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 | Artist: Bonnie L. Blandford Jeweler
My work has gone through a lot of changes over the last 28 years. I started with all sterling silver, lots of rings and then added some gold. I then switched over to all gold, concentrating on rings with asymmetrical stones, and a large line of earrings.
I was spending more time working in wax than metal. I went back to being a metalsmith. I’ve taken what I learned there and from subsequent classes from other people, and totally changed my work. It’s much harder, but since 1988, I’ve concentrated on my mixed metal jewelry, which I really love. It’s the most satisfying!
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 | Artist: Brandi Brown Designs
In the spring of 2002, I designed my first necklace after searching and searching for the perfect color combination and style to go with an outfit. I experimented with some beads and colors and created a necklace that was perfect. I continued to operate that way until the winter of 2005 when I left my full time job and started my own business, Brandi Brown Designs.
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 | Artist: Cheryl Kumiski Glass Studio
For nearly 25 years, Kumiski has been a glass tamer, though her passion to create is something she says has always been inside of her....
A few years ago she turned to making glass jewelry so that she would have something to sell at the shows, again tackling a an unusual facet of working in glass. Kumiski's consummate skill and artistic eye involve seeing things in both abstract and detailed forms, looking at something so closely that it becomes a series of abstract shapes that then mysteriously form the details of a cheek, a nose, eyes and hands. The hills and vallleys between Kumiski's lead lines build a kind of landscape to the face that makes her portraits unforgettable...."
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Artist: Colleen Mauer Designs
Designer Colleen Mauer's creative venture began on a cluttered desk in San Francisco, where she continues to create her layered necklaces, dangled earrings and overlapping bracelets. Her pieces are composed of brightly pigmented beads, lively semi-precious stones and the occasional unique pendant, and are accented softly with sterling silver wire and other findings.
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 | Artist: Concepts in Metal
My work has gone through a lot of changes over the last 28 years. I started with all sterling silver, lots of rings and then added some gold. I then switched over to all gold, concentrating on rings with asymmetrical stones, and a large line of earrings. Then after many years of being primarily self-taught, I went to Taos New Mexico and took a class from Harold O’Connor. One thing he said to me was that I was no longer a metalsmith but had become a wax worker. (All my rings were made using the lost wax casting method where they are carved out of wax first). I took offense until I realized that he was right. I was spending more time working in wax than metal.
So Harold opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me when he taught me to fuse 24k gold (pure gold) to sterling silver using a mouth-held blowtorch. I went back to being a metalsmith. I’ve taken what I learned there and from subsequent classes from other people, and totally changed my work. It’s much harder, but since 1988, I’ve concentrated on my mixed metal jewelry, which I really love. It’s the most satisfying!
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 | Artist: David Smallcombe
My inspiration comes from a growing respect for Mother Nature, the primitive peoples who live with her, and a sense of connection that touches us all. I admire their straight forward approach and the richness of the pieces that they use every day. I agree with their idea of jewelry, tools, weapons, etc. as important self-defining things that give a sense of completeness, and to have these things around oneself all of the time.
I fabricate jewelry using chisels, hammers, and a variety of other methods to develop lines and textures directly on the metal as with chasing or indirectly to create an embossed surface using hydraulic pressure.
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