Meet the maker
Andrea is a designer and maker from Kansas now based in Reykjavik who crafts handmade jewellery inspired by the uniquely powerful colors, textures and materials of Iceland.
Andrea is creating ” bridge jewelry” , jewelry that bridges the gap between fine and custom jewelry. She is using gold filling, or silver as the metal and uses lava and semi-precious stones (such as amethyst, citrine, turquoise, jade, topaz, fresh water pearls, garnet). Each piece is designed and handmade by Andrea in her studio in Reykjavik.
How everything started
Andrea began learning metalsmithing and jewelry at the age of 15 from Jean Bass and Sandra Bush, two female crafters from Kansas whom she still admires and holds in high regard. Over the subsequent decades, Andrea’s love of the craft, along with her skills, deepened as she obtained a BA in History while also pursing coursework in Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the University of Kansas, University of Copenhagen and the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She continues private course work with teachers she deeply admires such as Kate Wolfe, Francesca Watson and Jeff Fulkerson. Andrea views working with metal and stones as a life long learning process.
In 2008, Andrea began selling her work on the streets of Reykjavik, followed by public markets, pop-up shops and now a brick and mortar store in Iceland. She’s sold her jewelry to visitors from all seven continents of the world – from NASA scientists to famous rock stars, North Korean government officials to entrepreneurial wunderkinds.
You can currently find her selling and crafting her wears at Laugavegur 33, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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