Studio Q Jewelry
About Studio Q Jewelry - Michael Burris and Katherine Goulandris
Our home studio is a hand built solar powered adobe located near the historic village of Abiquiu (a bee Q), New Mexico. The juniper and chamisa studded hills, and the Chama river valley below, once inspired artist Georgia O’ Keeffe who chose to live and work here. The landscape is an important backdrop in our creative life. We feel the expression of art is an attempt to more deeply understand the world around us. By looking more closely into what we see we hope to reveal the patterns in nature and how they unify our relationship to our art. Just as Buffalo grass, cactus and juniper work together to form a harmony in their landscape we use metal, fire and stone in an effort to evoke a similar harmony.
The process of jewelry making is for us purely collaborative. There is something special that happens when we work together which sharpens the relationship to our art. We do all of our own silverwork using traditional fabrication from sheet sterling silver, soldering, hand finishing/polishing, patination and gemstone setting.
Our intention from the beginning has not only been to make jewelry for adornment, but instead to try and step out of the box of what is expected and make designs which surprise our audience with something new or innovative and in this way invite them into the creative process.
The process of jewelry making is for us purely collaborative. There is something special that happens when we work together which sharpens the relationship to our art. We do all of our own silverwork using traditional fabrication from sheet sterling silver, soldering, hand finishing/polishing, patination and gemstone setting.
Our intention from the beginning has not only been to make jewelry for adornment, but instead to try and step out of the box of what is expected and make designs which surprise our audience with something new or innovative and in this way invite them into the creative process.