January Artist of the Month, Metalsmith Karyn Warner Hammock

Our 3D Artist of the Month for January is Metalsmith Karyn Warner Hammock.

Karyn has been a metalsmith for over 30 years and uses a mix of metals to fabricate jewelry and clocks. She hand textures the metals and applies different patinas to add contrast and color. She employs many different traditional jewelry techniques such as roller printing, corrugating, stamping, fold forming, enameling and hydraulic press forming to create further interest. You can see her jeweler’s influence through the embellishments such as gem stones, pearls and shell on both mediums. Karyn is inspired by nature and pattern and works to bring both texture and balance to her pieces while respecting the boundaries of the materials chosen and the demands of making her jewelry wearable and her clocks functional. She strives to evoke the patterns, textures and shapes from nature that are as simple as they are beautiful.

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