Inside Metalwerx

Michael Boyd made his first piece of jewelry at age twelve. Classes in lapidary at a recreation center in his hometown west of Denver, Colorado, reinforced his love of color and design, but, in college, painting and ceramics became his primary focus. He continued making jewelry, and then, he says, “Metalsmithing just sort of took […]

Maybe you know him from class, or from Vendor Day, or from his once a year private stone sale at Metalwerx. Gustave Herbert is a familiar member of our community. As owner of Trinity Imports LLC, Gustave travels the world to purchase fine gems that often end up in Metalwerx artists’ jewelry. On Friday July […]

Old world jewelry making techniques take center stage at Metalwerx when Victoria Lansford returns for workshops on Eastern repoussé and Russian filigree. Some of the world’s oldest and finest examples of metalsmithing were made using these methods. Preserving the interest in these labor-intensive processes is a personal calling for Victoria.

Tom Herman’s work is ornate, but not flamboyant. Romantic yet modern, evoking classical metalworking traditions from long ago. No two pieces of Tom Herman’s jewelry are ever alike, because he designs and carves each item, taking for inspiration organic forms such as leaves and flowers, or the cut of a stone he’s created. Tom’s heirloom-quality jewelry is not the kind of work that will sit in the bottom drawer of your jewelry case. But to hear him talk about it, his work is “so simple, anybody can do it.”