Fashion Photoshoot featuring my work!

Check out this fresh photos for a fashion spread in DList Magazine out in Seattle! Stylist Jenascia Chakos has incorporated my work in the past but she really highlighted it in this shoot! She made the work come to life! Thanks to all who collaborated!

A Historical Record

My love and appreciation for wood is never ending. It is an incredibly useful material with a minimal effect on our environment. 

For centuries, wood has provided humans with shelter, warmth, tools and furniture. I find great inspiration in this long history and I like to consider earliest man interacting with the material in the most basic of ways.

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Wood is imbedded with many layers of symbolism. The history of the wood, the time, the place is all apart of it. Each piece of wood has a story to tell. It keeps a record of its environment and each year brings new growth that marks its past. The rings of a tree can teach us about the environment and specific events in the trees life. It holds it's history within and its living energy expresses it outward. In addition to the objects a craftsman creates, this imbedded history and energy is expressed, adding to its depth.

Ring - Ad Idem Collection, Gustav Reyes 

Ring - Ad Idem Collection, Gustav Reyes

WOOD at Velvet da Vinci

I am honored to have my work exhibited among the best in wood jewelry at San Francisco's Velvet da Vinci Gallery. The exhibit is called WOOD and features art jewelers from around the world who primarily work with wood.

Check out the gallery of work that will be presented in this exhibit at the Velvet da Vinci website.



Wood reminds us to live life with the knowledge that each day is a gift and that one day we will cease to exist in this world. As wood, we too, will eventually return to the Earth. 

Organic Trefoil Brooch

Ad Idem Ring I

The Held Ring

Walnut Cuff

Three Treasures Neckpiece

Tactility & Visuality

Cherry & Silver

I was drawn to the way the wood responded to the cuts. There are strong ridges in the wood creating a unique texture that creates a very appealing tactile and visual effect.

Walnut, Silver & Gold Leaf, prototype

Of the mind, by the hand.

New Rings created as an addition to the Ad Idem Series.

The Ad Idem (Latin: "of the mind") Series is based on the idea of a collective of artists whose philosophies fall in line. The pieces in this series incorporate salvaged wood from Norm Sartorius, a woodworker who creates elegant wooden spoons. With this work, I access the collective unconscious and transform the wood into something new. 

View the full collection, here.