Resin Jewelry - Contemporary Sterling Silver and Resin Jewelry Handmade by Santa Fe Metalsmith Tracy Page Smith.

I fell in love with metalsmithing years ago and quickly discovered that it would be my life long art form. Through various instructional classes, workshops and my own self-taught practices, I’ve been able to hone my skills as a metal jewelry artist. After trying enamels years ago, I realized how much color inspired my forms and gave life to the metal. I began working and experimenting with resin and quickly discovered the unlimited possibilities in pigmenting color components.

I have epiphanies when I design, often starting with simplified shapes and then allowing the colors for those shapes to speak to me instead of me delegating them. I find that to create the visual impact I want each piece to have ultimately, whether it’s a simple piece or an ensemble, requires my “listening to” as well as “looking at” color. Though I prefer the lackluster of a sanded finish, I do like to create the illusion of texture by suspending organic particulates such as sand, spices, dried leaves, almost anything that crumbles and stays on the surface, within the pigmented resin.