I was first introduced to metal smithing during my first year of art school in the early eighties. I loved it from the start and proceeded on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Gold and Silversmithing from the State University of New York, in New Paltz.

After graduation I started a handcrafted jewelry business which I continued successfully through the next decade. Over the next ten years I worked as the sole designer for a jewelry manufacturing company, before deciding to return to my own business again.

Now I am happily working in my own studio again in the rural village of Cambridge NY. I own a small gallery with the studio workspace in the rear of what was one hundred years ago the Cambridge Post Office.

I love working with precious metals and stones, and incorporating elegant and natural forms into functional, very wearable, and very feminine jewelry. If you take a second look, you will notice the french ear wires are longer and frequently function to secure the earring from being lost. The earring backs are larger, the gold and silver balls are heavier to prevent dents and the back of the jewelry is polished as brightly as the front, and when all this is done it is signed by the artist and backed and for life.

Bon Appetit!
Ann Doherty Kearney