Pocketful of Berries

 

Beverly welds, fuses, solders, hammers, brazes, enamels, and cold connects metals, while often integrating silk, paper, paint, and organic materials into her pieces. Beginning with separate, distinct, and individual entities, she builds and compounds each segment to form a cohesive whole. Using any number of finishing techniques (sand, polish, paint, grind, file, patina, etc.), she works to enhance the natural beauty of metal, integrating all of the pieces so that the disparities fuse to become a unified structure.

Beverly was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She has been a metalsmith since the early 1990’s, when she began making jewelry and small metal items. Her jewelry has been sold in the Against His Will Gallery and Studio in Siler City, NC. In the last several years she has studied welding (in CT and in New York) to design and to build larger metal sculpture and wall art. Beverly’s work is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.