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 Keith Lewis |
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 metal-working 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. |
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Additional finishes are created with patinaed 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
began learning to make jewelry in South Korea at a lapidary shop in
1968 and later studied at several Universities, graduating with a
Masters of Fine Arts in Goldsmithing from the State University of
New York / New Paltz.
Ever since, he has been doing his best to make exciting, affordable
and easy to wear jewelry. His goal is to make your favorite earrings. |
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