Elizabeth Epley is a classically trained goldsmith and jewelry designer, specializing in 22 karat gold handmade jewelry.  With a contemporary eye she employs ancient traditions to fuse master craftsmanship, simplicity of form and a reverence for nature.  In addition to carving and lost wax casting she utilizes the time-intensive, two thousand year old, art of granulation, cabochon setting, and chain weaving.  Elizabeth incorporates all of these to realize her unique vision.

An art historian by education, Elizabeth studied photography, sculpture and archaeology at home and abroad before beginning her career at the Gagosian Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Compelled to return to creating her own art, Elizabeth’s love of fabricating sculpture drew her to the alchemy of alloying gold, forming finely-detailed component parts and producing jewelry as small sculpture. Over the last three decades she has studied with the Jewelry Arts Institute, Master Goldsmith Louise Parrish and her mentor Bianca López at her studio, Bianca Lopez Studio of Jewelry Art and Design.

Contrasting worlds inform Elizabeth’s designs. Living in Greenwich, CT with her family provides access to both the urban vivacity of New York City, where she works in a studio located in the eclectic and artistic NOHO community and the rural vitality of the Blue Ridge Mountains where her studio is settled in a sun-filled converted barn on her family farm. In addition to the constant drive to create, Elizabeth is fueled by her faith, family, love of animals, advocating for children with cancer and the health of our planet. You can see this inspiration in each meticulously-crafted piece.