Marla Trudine - One of a Kind, Handmade Fashion Jewelry

Thank you for visiting my website of art jewelry. My name is Marla Trudine, and I am a jeweler and metal-smith living in Hocking Hills, Ohio. I learned the craft of jewelry design, fabrication, and gold and silver smithing from my mother, who is an accomplished goldsmith and silversmith, when I was a child, and it quickly became my lifelong passion. I have been working with precious metals and beautiful precious stones since the age of ten. I gained my extensive knowledge of gemstones from my father who is a gemologist and jeweler as well. Drawing inspiration from both of my parents, I became a skilled jeweler and started selling stylish jewelry in art galleries when I was a teenager. I specialize in creating one-of-a-kind, handmade, high fashion art jewelry in my private Lancaster, Ohio studio, using all sustainable recycled gold and silver. Every piece is made by me, using the ancient jewelry-making process of hand fabrication. This means that I work with the metals themselves to create each piece, rather than working in wax to make a mold that is then converted into metal. There are a few pieces that I have made into molds after I created them by hand in gold, but that is very rare, and each piece is still handmade by me and completely unique. All of the pieces that you will see when you explore my work started out as a piece of flat gold or silver sheet, or varying types of gold and silver wire, that were bent, sawed out, hammered, formed, shaped, and soldered personally by me.

My handcrafted, one-of-a kind (“ooak”) jewelry is greatly inspired by Art Nouveau designs, Art Nouveau art, and Art Nouveau architecture, as well as Art Deco and Modern Art. My pieces are whimsical and playful, yet sophisticated and refined, and most of all inspiringly feminine in nature. I use yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, green gold and silver and many of my pieces incorporate two or three colors of gold together.