Jennie Lorette Keatts

Keatts is an award-winning jeweler, I am primarily known for my sterling silver jewelry designs featuring handmade ceramic cabochons, created from Jugtown Pottery clay and glazes. My work is primarily influenced by my fascination with the ability to create colors from ceramic glazes mimicking natural stones, the malleability of metals and my appreciation for the variety that mother nature offers. I have recently started working with enamels (crushed glass) that I am incorporating into my work, with and without the pottery stones. I use my torch to create enamel pieces. This is just one more addition to the ceramic materials that I am working with, clay, minerals, and stains. Glass and glaze have much in common, so I am utilizing these materials in different methods, often bringing them together in one piece. All my work is handmade from sterling sheet and wire from start to finish. - Courtesy of her website