Ornamental Elements

While Louisville artist, Lona Northener, sleeps, visions of jewelry designs dance through her head. “My jewelry is very abstract and some of the time, it is based on organic growing things and sometimes it is very geometric.  I usually get a spark of an idea and as I begin to work on it, it evolves and sometimes changes into something I hadn’t planned on.  It is always very labor intensive and time consuming but it is a labor of love and it seems that I can’t go very long without doing it.  When I go to bed at night designs play through my head and I can build something just in my head and as a result, I very seldom draw out the design before I start.”