Artists' Gallery Sunriver

Earthy, organic, and grounded in nature describe jeweler Amy Pfeiffer’s esthetic. An outdoor enthusiast, Amy is fascinated by the earth’s geology, flora and fauna. During her outdoor explorations, Amy collects rocks and minerals throughout the western US and Canada. She later turns these earthly treasures into the stones she uses to enhance her jewelry creations.

Amy’s foray into jewelry began as a way to spotlight her lapidary. When she collections rocks and stones, she later cuts, shapes, polishes them into cabochons. Amy started metal work and jewelry in 2012 as a way to show off all the beautiful stones she collected over the years. She learned lapidary arts (cutting, carving, and polishing stones) and  metal working on her own. She is equally passionate about both the rock and the metal forms in jewelry.

Reflecting nature, her jewelry can best be described as “organic”. She hand forges all the metal, and uses recycled metals whenever possible. Occasionally she incorporates gold she collected in Alaska into her designs. Amy features the stones she has personally collected, shaped and polished in her jewelry.

“My jewelry reflects my love of the earth, rocks and all things living on this planet. When I stop to look, I marvel at the blooms, the shapes, the resilience and the textures of the natural world. I try to reflect that in my jewelry.”

Amy works primarily in sterling silver, and also gold, copper and brass. She uses a variety of metals to spotlight her stones.

A geologist, Amy earned a B.S. in geology and enjoyed a long career working as a geologist. Her love of the earth and it’s treasures is natural for this lapidarist and metalsmith.