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Olivia Marie Handcrafted Adornment celebrates the power of visuals and objects as portals—to magical facets of reality and expansive versions of ourselves. Conjured into existence with love and intention in Belfast, Maine; these one-of-a-kind and limited production pieces are imaginative, distinctive, and enchanting as the individuals for whom they are designed.
Olivia Marie Suffern is equal parts artist, designer, and craftswoman whose childhood obsessions of collecting figurines and building fairy homes morphed into a passion for the process and scale of creating jewelry and decorative art. She received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2014, along with an Outstanding Merit Award from the Department of Fine Arts, before continuing to refine her craft in a series of workshops at New Approach School for Jewelers.
True to its appellation, Olivia Marie Handcrafted Adornment is created by hand, imbuing each piece with spirit and novelty. Olivia's studio practice incorporates a potpourri of metalsmithing techniques including carving, forging, soldering and fabrication; polishing, enameling, stone setting, and more. Her technical approach and experience working in metal also informs forays into other mediums and materials such as wood, glass, fabric, and ceramics. Each new design spurs an exciting challenge, and Olivia spends countless hours in her workshop transforming her ideas into tangible, (often) wearable works of art.