Testimonials
“LOVE LOVE LOVE my Ring! Just what I wanted. Nice and heavy & sparkly on my finger. Thank you so much! Great Job!”
— Michael
Susan Lister Locke is an accomplished artist and metalsmith who lives on Nantucket Island. She is most noted for her rings, working primarily in 18-karat gold, and using the time-honored “lost-wax process”, in which sculpting and carving reveal the chosen image.
”While I may start with an idea – a specific image – it is through the process itself that shape and form take on lives of their own – often surprising me. It is as if what emerges as a finished design was there all the time, with its own energy, just waiting to be released,” she says of her exciting discovery process. Incorporating gemstones and pearls into her work and working directly with metal, Ms. Locke’s collection now includes bracelets, necklaces and men’s jewelry.
Commission work is a specialty. “I love to have people bring something to me and ask me to give it new life. I believe jewelry is very sentimental; so much of it has a very personal ‘story’. Creating new stories is also a great experience – often in my travels, I will find stones which remind me of a client – so, I’ll make a piece of jewelry for them and surprise them with the results – they are always thrilled and so am I!”
Susie Locke’s work has been exhibited and sold at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Dimson Homma in New York City, The Artful Image Gallery in Concord, Massachusetts, and is currently available on Nantucket Island at The Nantucket Looms, The Nantucket Artists’ Association, as well as at her own studio.
