Original jewelry from the workshop of the forest fairy Carolyn Morris Bach
Caroline Morris Bach is a graduate of the prestigious College of Fine Arts and Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Having lived after graduation for about ten years in Newport, she nevertheless decided to fulfill her dream and left the city. Now Caroline lives in an old house surrounded by forests and pastures of southern Rhode Island, owns seventy acres of land.
Her studio in the house is literally full of unusual materials – bird nests, calf bones, shells, shells, pebbles, chestnuts, nuts. Some of them are collected in small still lifes.
“The environment is part of my work, part of me as an artist. We live in the forest, wherever you look, something grows everywhere. In any work, the most important and natural thing is lost if such things are excluded.
Carolyn does all her work by hand – in her workshop she forges thin golden twigs herself, carves tiny animals and birds from calf bones. She often uses quite unusual combinations of expensive materials (high-quality gold, sterling silver) with those of her “treasures” that she collected during her walks (nuts, chestnuts, shells …).
In her works, Carolyn sings of everything that she loves – nature, plants, animals, people. She has an excellent command of jewelry plasticity, she knows how to successfully combine antiquity and modernity.
Carolyn has long been interested in the art of the native peoples of North America. Over time, this passion led her to create her own style with a touch of primitivism – hence the carved faces in her works. But for this, she had to seriously study the culture of the indigenous peoples of not only North America, but also other continents.
“When I think of a new job, I study the national craft, I study the material for a long time and it becomes part of my consciousness.”
The world of Carolyn’s images is filled with strange and mysterious forest dwellers – symbolic foxes, crows, deer, rabbits, owls. Many of her works are called mascots by collectors.
