Cape Cod to Arizona to Maui. I grew up with pockets full of shells and sea glass. A gem show somewhere outside Tucson pulled me, quietly, toward the bench — and I haven't really looked up since.

I work alone, out of a small studio on my property in Paia. Each piece is hammered, filed, set and finished by hand. Undine is my middle name — from a fairytale my mother loved, about a water nymph.

Everything in the shop is made by me, in small numbers. I don't cast, I don't outsource, I don't rush. A piece takes a week. If it's not right, I start over.