Gifts of Art presents Wearable Topography: Enamel and Metal Jewelry by Lisa Walsh

Jewelry artist Lisa Walsh uses an ancient process called champlevé to create wearable art reflecting her love of nature and cartography. Heavy copper sheet and colorful vitreous enamel combine to portray elevation lines, telling the story of land peaks and valleys… or is it the mapping of the heart? Her work is heavily influenced by the cross-country camping trips her family embarked on during her childhood. Her father, a photographer, used these trips to capture the beauty of parks and wildlands with his camera, while encouraging his growing daughter to explore her own artistic interests.

Since 1998, she has worked out of her studio in Lafayette, Indiana, using precious metal, enamel, and her own flameworked glass beads. Her work can be found in galleries across the US, and Artists’ Own, the cooperative gallery in Lafayette she helped found in 2000. She is also a life coach and inventor of Creative Intermission, a series of workshops teaching elements of mental wellness, each reinforced with a creative project.