I have loved wearing and making jewellery for as long as I can remember. These are some of the pieces I made (and photographed!) before I begun my formal goldsmith studies

Travelling Trunk Show, Europe (2020)

Between waves of covid, I travelled with my then boyfriend, Leo, around Europe in a van refurbished to be our tiny home. During the day, he wrote and I made jewellery. In the evenings, he’d busk and I’d try to sell what I’d made. I was already enrolled in my first year at George Brown College, but it was during covid so all my classes were online. We’d stop in cafés to get enough wifi for me to do my homework. We started in Italy and ended in Ireland. While I can’t say I’d do it again, it was the pressure that forged my interest in making (coal) into a clear crystal passion for jewellery (diamond).

Wire Work (2019)

The simplicity and elegance of wire based work has always appealed to me. It never really fit with my own personal style, but it was the type of jewellery that I was most often asked to make for others. Here are some of the pieces I photographed!

James Street Art Crawl (2018-19)

In the decade before covid, there was a wonderful era of rebellion among the artists of my hometown ‘the Hammer’ - Hamilton, Ontario. Every Friday night, the art galleries along James Street would host openings and the streets would organically fill with ‘booths’ showing and selling all sorts of arts - prints and books, paintings and recordings, cookies and ceramics. This was the birthplace of my travelling trunk show. I had a vintage suitcase that I filled with whatever I’d made that week and I set it out on the street, fascinated by what caught the eye of passerbys.