I am a NYC based jewelry artist and professor of Jewelry at Pratt Institute. The New York industrial landscape inspires my artwork. My environment is at once tough, gritty and yet exquisite and vulnerable; I find that this disparity comes together in my art where I combine delicate elements with rough cut stones and textural patterns. I studied metal-smithing at a vocational school in New York City that trained jewelers to work in the diamond district of New York. After this training I studied and taught metal-smithing and jewelry design in Florence Italy. My work is hand wrought in silver and gold and is process driven. All of my work is created by hand and I love the small subtle perfect imperfections that are pervasive in the handmade. While ever evolving in style and design, I find that my art always comes back to the industrial and psychologically rich landscape of New York City, my home.