Every piece has its own inspiration. For a metalsmith working in copper and stone, that inspiration ends at a bench, where a length of wire is slowly, deliberately wound around an object until it holds. Wire-wrapped jewellery isn't wire work with stones tacked on. Inside the craft from a rural Alberta metalsmith: cold forge, anneal, solder, wire-wrap.

Every piece has its own inspiration. Every piece is wire-wrapped and forged by hand in my studio in Derwent, Alberta. I live outside a hamlet called Derwent, in rural Alberta. If you've never heard of it, you're in good company — about a hundred people live here, and the nearest traffic light is a thirty-minute drive in either direction. It isn't the most obvious place to run a handmade jewellery business. But it's also exactly the right place. This is the story of Geneen's G