Keith Lewis has been designing and making jewelry in
the Hudson River Valley for over twenty years. His signature earring
is a kinetic (moveable) geometric shape on an earwire. All the earwires
and findings are designed to allow the jewelry parts to move while
being worn.
Using contrasting and complementary finishes along with unique construction,
his designs offer a wealth of metalworking techniques. Milled sterling
sheet is cut into shapes and formed by hand, then polished or satin
finished, bead blasted or patterned with masking. They are plated
with gold, oxidized with a patina or textured by transferring the
pattern of a hardened photo-etched sheet of metal to the raw sterling
by hand-rolling them together in a rolling mill. Additional finishes
are created with patina-ed brass, anodized Niobium and heated copper,
using a Japanese technique where copper is heated until brightly glowing
and then plunged into boiling water to create a plum red appearance.
Growing up in Europe and the Far East, Keith Lewis became interested
in crafts at an early age. He learned to cut stones in Korea in 1968
and graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in Goldsmithing in 1981.
Ever since, he has been doing his best to make friendly, affordable,
easy to wear sterling jewelry with interesting finishes.
His goal is to make your favorite earrings. |
wholesale orders accepted
custom orders accepted