Meet the Artist
Catherine Stemper
Jewelry
Catherine Stemper graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art, majoring in Design. She has been creating and selling her wares in Portland and the PNW for more than 30 years. She is an artist with a broad and distinctive body of work unlike any other.
Nature is the inspiration for Catherine’s completely unique jewelry designs. Her style is well defined. Her work ranges from complex and articulated to simply minimal. She fabricates all of her jewelry with sheet metal, wire, & beads. The metals are silver, copper, brass, gold, & steel. All the ear wires & clasps are her original designs and are hand twisted. Designing, sawing, stamping, hammering, soldering, texturizing, shaping, & polishing are some of the skills she uses to create her work.