Updates

When Bill Kasso starts cutting his rough boulder opal, koroit opal, yowah opal, etc... it is a very exciting time for him and of course for me. When I saw these leaf shape boulder opals that he cut for me I flipped. These are going to be big earrings; not for the faint of heart, or worried about when one is going to wear them... you just do, much like the Nike sentiment... Iv'e accented them with 6mm blue zircons (that are luscious), and tsavorite garnets to pull out the famous blue/green tones that are cradled in the iron stone matrix.



Like many artists I have a very large collection of the materials I use, in my case, it's boulder opal, opalized wood, yowah opal, koroit opal and, my fiancé is an opal miner! This addiction, like any addiction occupies not only ones time, but ones head space.  I think about boulder opal colors, what creation is next and how opal can be designed to show off it's beauty.  My pieces are complicated, much like a mosaic or a Klimt painting.  My work is for the woman who starts something, not a follower by any stretch of the imagination.  It's not an unusual sale when a piece is purchased by a female lawyer, doctor, banker, finance director, etc...   I find that satisfying.  

 I just finished this ring with boulder opal, peridot, & tsavortite in 22k and 18k gold.  I love this ring... It's going to be hard to let this go.    

http://www.kalledjewelrystudio.com/collections/jennifer-kalled/products/boulder-opal-and-tsavorite-ring-1

There is something special about the relationship between the artist and the collector.  Why?  because it is a shared experience.  

Boulder opal, pearl, spinals, diamonds, carved black onyx drusy, peridot, spessartite, in 22k & 18k gold.