Artist of the week! KAREN CAZEL

We are excited to announce a new feature! Artist of the week. This week we will be featuring Karen Cazel.

Abalone and Enameled Sterling $60.00

Agate and Sterling $98.00

Amber, Ametrine, Pearl and Sterling $135.00

Agate and Sterling $150.00

Beach Stone, Petroglyph and Sterling $130.00

Agate and Sterling $180.00

Sterling and Agate $160.00

Here is her Bio:
Karen Cazel - Jewelry Artist
For me, wearable art crosses boundries between sculpture and jewelry. Inspiration derives from fascination with simple shapes, textures, and surfaces that may appear in the everyday landscape. I love beautiful objects. The things that excite me most usually involve the color of silver, especially as it ages and obtains many different shades and textures.

I make a selection of handmade jewelry, mostly one-of-a-kind pieces that are hand-crafted at the bench, giving each piece individuality using a variety of materials including silver, oxidized silver and copper, also incorporating any found materials that might function with the jewelry pieces.

I keep a sketchbook of ideas, and work from it, but many times I work directly with the metal, assembling a piece into a pleasing combination of shapes and textures. These pieces form an alliance with the body, but I like to think of many of them as objects, small sculptures to wear. The jewelry has to be wearable but should be a reflection of the creator and the wearer.

I like to think of my jewelry pieces as precious, not the materials from which they're made necessarily, but the combined feeling they purvey, that of treasure or talisman, that contain sophisticated yet primitive design. This, of course, is what I feel about the things I make. The hope is that the purchaser/wearer will get the same enjoyment and or enchantment that I do.