Hi, I’m Jessica.

For me, creating jewelry is freedom. Freedom to be creative, freedom to mess up and try again, freedom to wear what we want, freedom to remind ourselves of who we are and who we are becoming. It means the world to me that you are here, that you are alive, that you are purchasing and adorning yourself with something that comes from deep within my soul. I feel incredibly grateful that I get to create meaningful art that is inspired by the beauty and mystery of nature. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being here and checking out my world.

If you love a piece or a piece speaks to you and it’s not in your budget, please send me a message and we can work something out. I’m always down for trades.

How I got started in silversmithing:

I was in a car accident that knocked me unconscious.  When I came to, the world was a very different place for me physically and mentally.  I’m a body worker, so working with my physical body came naturally to me.  It was hard, but familiar.  Working with my brain and the damage it sustained was new territory for me.  What happened in my brain during the accident far exceeded my knowledge of the nervous system.  But, always one to take on a challenge, I went all in on learning, rewiring, unlearning, observing, and feeling everything I could.  I struggled a lot.  I lost a lot.  

There is something immensely beautiful that I gained through this experience that I couldn’t have felt any other way.  When my brain wasn’t functioning enough for me to carry on a conversation or cook a meal for myself or remember my address or how to drive or pump my own gas, the thing that saved me and gave me hope was that there was something within me that was deeper and more alive than my physical body.  When I couldn’t remember what numbers meant, when I couldn’t figure out how to answer a friend’s simple question of what I would like for dinner, when I couldn’t sleep for days, weeks, and months at a time, something deep inside of me was calm, clear, and peaceful.  

During the first few years of healing I made a lot of art and spent a lot of time in nature.  They were the only things I could do that didn’t make me feel anxious or confused.  So I sat in nature and painted.  A lot.  Huge canvases and small canvases.  I hung them all over my walls.  And I wanted flowers everywhere.  I planted so many flowers.  And during those intimate and vulnerable times where I couldn’t really think, I let go of my mind completely and allowed my fingers and brushes to smear colors all over these canvases, and I would lay on the earth and listen to my heart.  I found that we have this part of us that is eternal, not able to be broken or injured by the world we currently live in.  We have this part of us that is so wise and loving and peaceful.  This part of us is what connects all of us; to each other and to the earth.  This part of us is rooted in a deep ocean of love, quite unfathomable to us in our current state of being in these human bodies.  

Life outside of these moments full of nature and paint was painful and hard, and so I found myself at what we call rock bottom.  

I would come back to those intimate moments of creating as often as I could.  It was in those moments that I moved from painting to silversmithing and taught myself how to work with silver and stones. 

Making jewelry is what brought me back to myself.  At rock bottom, there was absolutely nothing; no feelings, no emotions, no connection to anything or anyone, no desire, nothing.  And when I finally decided I needed help, mama nature came rushing in to ignite this desire within me to work with ancient things from the earth; to work with silver and stone.  And this simple desire has now kept me busy learning and creating for hours and days and now years.  Spending time looking into the depths within the stones, holding them in my hands, feeling them speak to me about what to create.  They allow me to keep learning, keep trying, keep messing up, and keep trying again.  They teach me about process, and about letting go, that it all ultimately leads to smoother edges, to creating ways to let the light pass through.  They teach me to see the beauty that is inherent within each stone, that wants to be revealed, little by little.  They teach me to find the beauty within myself and others.  The beauty of loss, the beauty of being seen.  They teach me about the beauty of community and the importance of becoming the fullest expression of my soul.  

If you ever feel lost, if life feels overwhelming, may you find time to sit or walk in nature, may you find time to create and write and paint and plant flowers.  And once you’re in those moments, allow your thoughts to fall away so that your heart may speak to you; through flowers, through the songs of the birds, through a gentle nudge toward your deepest desires of creating something beautiful.  

Love you all.