Dear Friends and Patrons of Gravers Lane Gallery,

As we close out an unprecedented year in so many ways, we’re grateful for all of your support. Please consider completing this short survey to let us know how we can help create a safe and comfortable shopping experience this holiday season. As a thank you, we are happy to provide a coupon toward finding that special gift for yourself or a loved one.

Happy Holidays,

Bruce, Barbara, and Bo-in

“Trained as a silversmith in Germany and having spent several years constructing tableware, my approach to jewelry making is informed foremost by the European tradition of applied art. I limit myself to creating jewelry that is wearable and also, to a big degree, to the materials traditionally perceived as precious. Within these limitations I am trying to develop my own language, hoping to be able to not only communicate my own sensibilities but also a sense of contemporary aesthetique.

Over the years, I find certain themes reoccurring in my work, the rhythmical arrangements of several elements, repetition of similar forms or colors, the unexpected contrasts of differently textured materials.

I am endlessly fascinated with gemstones, precious or not by the wealth of different reds found in nature, by the sea of blues: the opaqueness of lapis, the transparency and subtlety of a lightly lilac-colored sapphire. One can almost paint with these stones.

Within the self-imposed limitation of, for instance, making a gold brooch I feel I can, through my choice of colors and textures, communicate a certain mood, an attitude towards life that in turn will be, I hope, sensed by whoever is looking at the piece like a improvisational jazz melody, like an abstract landscape.”

-Petra Class-