About Kelley

For as long as I can remember I’ve been creating something. My mother was an excellent seamstress and taught me how to sew. My dad is a writer, and my brother (17 years older), was my first art instructor, so it seemed natural as a child to write and illustrate my own books. For years I worked in a flower shop, and years later I graduated from Art Instruction Schools. I still enjoy drawing and painting, and I often incorporate my 2D art skills into my one-of-a-kind artisan jewelry.

Offline, my work can be found in Beads to Beauty in Ruidoso, New Mexico, Oso Arts Gallery in Capitan, New Mexico, and Cloudcroft Trading Post in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. I participate in local arts and crafts fairs, and my work has also been featured in Step By Step Wire Jewelry and Bead Trends magazine. I also teach classes.

I design with sterling silver wire, copper wire, gold-filled wire, semi-precious stones, seashells, polymer clay, and fused glass. I also enjoy using the Anasazi pottery shards I find on our ranch. I have eclectic tastes and interests, from folklore and literature to culture and history, and these influences are inevitably translated to my pieces.

**Affaire de Coeur**
Simple or sophisticated, a touch of the Edwardian or Victorian, these pieces call to the romantic and feminine within.

**Caravanserai**
Imagine an exotic desert inn, tassel-draped camels, exquisitely caparisoned Arabian horses, silk, spices, jewel tones. 1001 Arabian Nights, a Marakesh Bazaar, and belly dancers whose sinuous rhythms are underscored by the beat of the drum. This is the Caravanserai line.

**Eire**
Emerald hills and high crosses, The Book of Kells, misty moors, and labyrinthine knots that symbolize eternity with no beginning and no end. This is Eire.

**Quest** Travel to a mythical past, to the world of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail, a world of dragons, castles, fairies, and all things magical and mysterious. When you quest, perhaps you will return with a great treasure, or a miniature dragon of your very own.

**Sherwood Forest**
The legend of Robin Hood and Maid Marian inspires images of a primeval forest with trees draped in ivy vines and ferns growing amidst tree roots. Sherwood Forest is “natural medieval,” with the curving lines of vines and plenty of leaves and seasonal colors.

**Southwest Fusion**
Turquoise and silver, adobe walls and blue doors, earthy panoramas, vast blue skies, and tree-dotted mesas. Southwest Fusion features a touch of the traditional blended with my own unique vision of what it’s like to be part of the Land of Enchantment and the greater Southwest.

**Tempest**
Tempest is inspired by the fantastical Shakespearean romance in which the sorcerer Prospero and his daughter Miranda were set adrift and shipwrecked on a remote island. Starfish in tidal pools, beach glass, sea shells and sea horses, the pieces in “Tempest” are a magical array of natural objects discovered during Miranda’s many barefoot strolls on the beach.

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