DeborahLaun

This shop features unique hand made artisan jewelry: necklaces, pendants, bracelets, earrings and rings, as well as wearable flash drives. I was trained as an industrial designer and worked for many years at Brownlie Design developing the forms and ergonomics of a wide variety of products. Jewelry design came as a natural extension in my quest for beautiful forms that relate to the human body. Silversmithing and stone cutting allows me to create objects that are unique as well as useful, and has fed my passion for form and color, nature and natural materials. I look for elements that are unusual and build the metal around them to express the uniqueness of object and transform it into wearable art.

When an artist makes a piece, the process of conceiving the idea, the creation and actualization, gives the work a soul, something that mass production can’t do. In turn, the owner adds what feelings are invoked by the work. I think of jewelry as a kind of talisman, something that has special meaning to the wearer. This may be represented in the stone, the forms and images, or hidden in the way they hold memories of people or events. One of my favorite things to do is make custom pieces from stones people have collected on their journeys.

I also make a line of flash drive pendants with sculpted silver or cut stone front panels. I was commissioned to design and produce the flash drive for the movie Max Winslow and the House of Secrets, released in 2019.

When I’m not creating, I play in the woods. My love of mountains and forests and rivers and snow feeds my soul and inspires my work. This shows in the forms and details I use, as well as my choices in materials, from stones I’ve collected, to the use of recycled items to lessen our impact on the planet.

If you would like to see more of my work including some that have already found homes, visit www.deborahlaun.com Thank you for your interest!