It began with an image of the sea and the sky and a walk through a Munich tradefair… It was the strand of raw facetted saphires that caught our eyes as we oggled over the beauty of the stones in front of us. We were at the Munich tradefair looking for stones for my current…
She Already Knows. She’s arrived at herself and chooses a piece of jewelry that speaks to her confidence. There is a moment I have watched happen many times. A woman picks up one of my pieces of statement jewelry, or puts it on, and goes quiet. Not politely quiet – not the performance of appreciation…
The Piece Tells Me What It Wants To Be There is a question I get asked regularly, and I always have to think carefully about how to answer it in a way that people who aren’t me can understand. How do you design your pieces? The honest answer is – I don’t. Not in the…
Wearing jewelry is a decision made every morning about how you want to be perceived by others that day. My mother used to wait until I was in bed before she brought out her sewing machine. She would sew our holiday clothes, pieces for herself, things she had imagined and was bringing into existence with…
From the Oregon Coast to the Luxury Houses of Europe — How Two Worlds Shaped My Wearable Art Jewelry Studio. I was four years old the first time I understood that a stone could stop me completely. Little did I know that this was the beginning of my path towards creating wearable art jewelry. It…
How two landscapes shape my artistic direction and how this place lives inside each piece I make. The quiet in the chaos. I work full time in fashion in Zurich. I manage a luxury store in the city, which I love — but it is also, undeniably, the madness. The pace, the intensity, the endless…
Jewelry Stories by Lisa-Marie Armstrong Wearable art for the bold soul – the kind of jewelry that doesn’t whisper, but speaks. Welcome to my journal. The presence of Big Jewelry There’s something powerful about wearing big jewelry. Not big for the sake of being big – but big because it carries presence. Weight. Intention. And,…
Jewelry Stories by Lisa-Marie Armstrong Welcome to my Jewelry Stories. Works of Art can unexpectedly come into existence by happy accident. This piece in particular taught me more about intuition and patience than any perfectly planned design ever could. How a mistake became a cherished piece Sometimes the pieces I love the most begin as…