About the artist:

Artist Mary Pritchard began making jewelry in her early teens, inspired by the artists she discovered at the many art shows she attended with her mother. Mary continued making jewelry into her college years where she soon discovered a love of clay. As an apprentice with Idaho clay artist, Maggi Fuhriman, Mary worked for three years discovering the world of clay, uncovering her ability to create and celebrating the friendship that was forged between mentor and teacher. While beginning to carve out her notoriety as a tile artist, Mary and her fiance opened a studio in Hammond Bay. The two created a niche in the art circle as detailed tile artists, also creating mosaic tables and fireplace surrounds as well as thrown pottery for household and decorative use. In 2001, still interested in Jewelry, Mary began to apply her knowledge of clay with her desire to design jewelry, and a new line was born. H.B. Jewelry is a conglomeration of clay, both carved and stamped, and sterling silver which together creates a feeling of nature and the beauty that it brings. Mary and her husband work and live on the shores of Lake Huron near a small town not far from where she was born. She can be reached by e-mail and would welcome any questions or inquiries about her work.

Being an artist
means, not reckoning and counting,
but ripening like the tree

which does not force its sap
and stands confident
in the storms of spring

without the fear that after them
may come no summer.

-Rainer Maria Rilke