I started my gemstone jewelry journey back in 2002.
I was laid off from my lab work at Boeing-McDonalds Douglass wing production plant in Toronto. A friend of mine talked me into going to see the biggest indoor art festival in North America, with close to 800 artists, One of a Kind Christmas Art & Craft Show, in Toronto. There among the most beautiful arts and crafts, I've discovered Beautiful Gemstones.
I was very excited, I felt these gemstones, I felt the energy they radiate.
And I started creating my own designs, and the following year I was accepted into the same art show.
Since then my designs have evolved into quite sophisticated pieces of one of a kind jewelry.
After a few years of being on the circle of major craft shows in Ontario, I decided to try Art Festivals in US.
The application process was not easy, very competitive, thru an application processing website called Zapplication, which was very new in 2006.
I was getting accepted to many major art festivals in NYC, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Syracuse(NY), Buffalo(NY), Rhinebeck(NY), NJ, Long Island...etc.
I was very glad with my decision. It was a new and exciting world of art, with hundreds of thousands of art lovers flooding each festival over the weekend. The level and quality of the shows was the very best there is.
In January till beginning April I was doing the very best of art festivals in Florida, wonderful art events like Naples Invitational, Boca Raton Museum of Art Festival of Art, South Miami Art Fes., Gasparilla Art Fes. in Tampa, and many others.
In the regular season from May till October I was doing popular art festivals on a weekly basis, like Crafts on Columbus in NYC(3 weekends in Spring and 3 weekends in Fall), Crafts at Rhinebeck(NY), Manayunk art Fes. in Philadelphia, Three Rivers art Fes. in Pittsburgh...and more.
I won a number of awards in jewelry category over the years.
Since 2011 I'm residing in Israel and participating in a permanent Art Fair on Nachalat Binyamin in Tel Aviv, Israel, which is very popular among tourists.