You can contact me by email: bmf(at)brittanyjewelry.com
The local public tv visited me. You can see how I make the things I do. Also fire.
“Making things more complicated, one broken saw blade at a time.”
With innumerable influences, from cephalopods to industrial debris and munitions, Brittany makes things, because she has always made things. As a youngster, she was drawn to doing things with her hands. Jewelery seemed mysterious, which led her to wonder, “How people could possibly do that with simple, manual tools?”. When she discovered there were also hammers and fire involved, it sealed the deal.
Having once been told that the human eye and brain can see a wiggle in a line to .03″ Brittany took it as a challenge. She uses a standard jeweler’s saw to cut all the twirly lines by hand. Her work is not fueled by electricity, but, much like Popeye, by spinach and beer. She also deploys the classic “hit it with a hammer” technique on her wrought pieces, which balances well with the meticulous work of cutting those curlicues.
Having taken Community College courses in jewelry through high school, Brittany went to the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating with honors in 2002. She then went on to set up an increasingly complicated shop (which now includes a small personal jungle). She has always worked as an independent jeweler with her own studio, developing her unique style through the time-honored method of trial and error.
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Grace |
Followed a complex series of links to get here. Not even sure where I started. But it was worth the trip. Your work is all that you seem to want it to be: unique, clearly handwrought, classic while contemporary, and so, so pretty. And my damn cat just knocked over water by the computer, so I gotta run. But well done, very well done.
Grace