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Artist Statement
Carla Pennie uses a combination of both traditional and contemporary techniques to create one-of-kind jewellery from precious and non-precious materials.
For Carla, “the earth stirs the imagination.” Both a collector of natural artefacts and a keen observer of the natural world, she is inspired by the delicate hand of Mother Earth.
Carla incorporates some of the finer methods of etching, drawing, fusing, inlay and granulation into her jewellery making. Her most recent work includes the ancient technique of scrimshaw: scoring into material with a fine instrument then laying down inks into the scored lines. She uses a variety of traditional and non-traditional materials such as fossilised ivory, bone, resin and nut when using this technique in her own work.
Carla attended the University of Ulster receiving a BA with honours in Fine and Applied Art in 1998. After spending the majority of her life in Northern Ireland, Carla decided to travel, tutoring art in New York state, working on a barge on the Seine river in France, and as a museum technician at Pecos National Historical Park, New Mexico. She returned to the U.K. in 2001 and completed an MA in Gallery Studies from the University of Essex, in England.
In the past five years Carla Pennie has made Santa Fe, New Mexico her home and enjoys dividing her time in her studio and working for the Museum of New Mexico as a collection manager. So drawn to her roots in Northern Ireland she will always return, and hopes to share more of her time between both places.
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