My name is Nicolette Tallmadge. I am a mixed media jeweler and have been making jewelry for over 14 years. I started my main jewelry company, Nicolette Tallmadge Designs, about 10 years ago.
I developed an interest in jewelry making shortly after graduating from high school. My early pieces were experiments in a variety of different materials. Beadwork, wire weaving, polymer clay, and fused glass encompassed the variety of materials and techniques that were used in creating my jewelry pieces. The first pieces were bulky and sculptural, more experiments of form and material, rather than actual functional jewelry pieces. An eternal experimenter, I was more interested in the process of jewelry making rather than the materials.
My work received a new dimension when I worked on a bachelor’s degree in fine art. With concentration on jewelry and metalworking, I learned the basics of soldering, sawing, casting, and stone setting. While I enjoyed metalworking, I found that I used my metalworking skills to augment my mixed media method of creating jewelry. My entry into my business occurred in the summer of 1997 when the buyer of the Library of Virginia approached me for creating some custom made jewelry for their gift shop.
My main focus in jewelry involves a variety of material, mostly paper and wire. However, I created my first Birthstone Jewelry piece in response to a customer who wanted a customized gift for her mother that incorporated the birthstone colors of her grandchildren. From that simple request, my brand new line of jewelry “The Birthstone Jewelry Series” was created.
Feel free to explore the rest of the website and choose a piece for yourself or for a loved one in your life. Or you can request a custom designed jewelry piece for yourself. You’re also welcome to visit my main jewelry website, Nicolette Tallmadge Designs to see my main line of mixed media jewelry.
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Nicolette Tallmadge
