ABOUT THE ARTIST

Art is in my soul. In the twenty years that I have been a professional jewelry artist, I have felt the ever-present conflict between my conservative side of myself and my wild bohemian side, the gainfully employed adult versus the artistic free spirit. I constantly see dichotomy in the world around me as well as within myself; I see beauty in objects that create a sense of uneasiness, even fear in others. For me there is a concurrent sense of balance, a yin/yang, within the inherent conflict of perceptions.

After moving to Montana in 2006, I found myself becoming creatively restless, wanting to reach deeper and unleash a more primal nature, a grittier creativity. By using my art to provocatively confront the uncomfortable feelings that force us to stare at a train wreck even though we want to look away, I feel that I am fulfilling an important aspect of my divine purpose, to touch people and change them in some way that they otherwise might not have achieved alone.

In my latest conceptual jewelry series, the Bullet Hole CollectionTM, I capture an iconic symbol of violence [the bullet] in its precise moment of impact [the hole]. I use what is physically not present to convey movement and action, to tell a story by inference, like using an echo rather than the voice itself. In doing so I create an unsettling beauty in my jewelry with what many would consider to be an alarming, but very unique, choice of subject matter.


ABOUT THE STUDIO

Black Water Siren Studio creates finely handcrafted art jewelry expressing ancient and modern symbolism in gem-embellished sterling silver, copper, bronze, and 14k gold. Cyndia's jewelry is collected on four continents by enthusiastic and loyal customers. In business since 1989, Black Water Siren jewelry can be found in select boutiques throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and in 2008 was featured in Femail Creations, a national gift catalog showcasing female designers. Several celebrities also own Cyndia’s jewelry.

Black Water Siren Studio is located just ten miles east of the Sapphire Mountains and thirty miles south of the Garnet range in Montana, the Treasure State.

Each piece of Black Water Siren jewelry is individually handcrafted by Cyndia in her studio. Cyndia uses labor-intensive techniques such as hard-soldering, stone-setting, lost wax casting, hand forging, metal chasing, and surface finishing to achieve each piece’s unique and original look. Carefully selected gems, often chosen for their rarity or unusual quality, are meticulously added to give vibrant color, sparkle, and individuality to each creation. Most of Cyndia’s designs are one of a kind or very limited production to ensure that no two pieces are exactly the same.

Cyndia Reddish is a self-taught metalsmith and jewelry artist. Jewelry has been a life long passion for Cyndia; her earliest memories are of a large box of her mother's costume jewelry, which she would spend hours taking apart and redesigning as a young child. Cyndia has been creating original art jewelry ever since, drawing inspiration from her environment, personal experience, and intuitive talent.

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We do custom work, some of which can be viewed here: previously commissioned work.

Cyndia has a blog that you can read at blackwatersiren.blogspot.com.

See and purchase Cyndia's award-winning photography and original watercolors on Etsy at ReddishGallery.etsy.com