My interest in art began in junior high school with sketching and painting. I was also fond of creative writing and to the delight of my parents, I was also interested in earth science, specifically: geology, mineralogy, and gemology.
In high school, I started making jewelry and took courses in metalsmithing. I also won awards for art photography and received plenty of practice in the darkroom as newspaper and yearbook staff photographer.
After high school, I put off going to school in geology for full-time work in retail, working for a company specializing in minerals, fossils and gems. I received my Graduate Gemologist Degree in 1984 from the Gemological Institute of America. I have worked many "facets" of the jewelry industry for the past 39 years including apprenticing as a goldsmith, as a store and office manager, an estate jewelry buyer, an appraiser, a diamond buyer, and as a wholesaler of precious and semi-precious gems.
My love of jewelry, gems and nature culminates in my photography where I enjoy landscape photography, flower and plant photography, photographing my own jewelry, gems and minerals as well as those for clients, including photographing mineral specimens as (a multi-published) Staff Photographer for The Mineralogical Record magazine.
Please enjoy the galleries on this site.
If there are any images you are interested in purchasing, please contact me through the contact link in the upper right corner.