Welcome to Gallery 386 

The jewelry you will find on this site is both unique and diverse. Darlene loves to combinemany techniques and processes to create these jewelry pieces. Her focus is the process. Figuring out how to build something that is only an idea at first , is the real challange and what she considers fun. When she has exhausted the processes within the idea she is ready to move on to something new.

Typically, the ideas appear while working on other pieces and one thing naturally leads to another. The surprises come when something does not go quite the way that was planned and actually ends up turning into a completely different piece altogether. Now that is really FUN!

Creating jewelry as personal adornment is Darlenes' passion. Her other passion is teaching .

Check out www.metalartschool.com for more information on learning how to make jewelry.